T096 Sancti spiritus adsit

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Standardised text incipit:

Sancti spiritus adsit

Reference sources:

Full text: I-Mfd [4], ff. 60v-61r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text:

Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia
quae corda nostra sibi faciat habitacula.

Tu aspirando da spiritales esse hospites.

Veni creator spiritus,
Mentes tuorum visita,
Imple superna gratia
Quae tu creasti pectora.

English translation:

May the grace of the Holy Spirit be with us, that it may choose our heart as its home.

While blowing do allow (your) guests to be spiritual beings.

Come creator spirit, visit your children's thoughts, fill with celestial grace the hearts that you created.

Subject:

Holy Spirit

Liturgical/devotional association:

Pentecost

Correspondences in standard ref works:

Sancti spiritus ... habitacula = Sequence for Pentecost, ascr. to Notker, AH 53, No. 70, pp. 119-122, st. 1 - 2
habitacula] habitaculum

Tu aspirando ... hospites = Sequence for Pentecost, ascr. to Notker, AH 53, No. 70, pp. 119-122, st. 17
da] das
hospites] homines

Veni creator ... pectora = Hymn for Pentecost, ascr. to Pope Innocens III, AH 54, No. 153, pp. 234-239, st. 1

Related texts in polyphonic sources:

I-Mfd [4], ff. 124v-125r, Sancti spiritus adsit nobis (G. van Weerbeke) (=M140, T140)

I-TRbc MS 1378 [91] (“Trent 91”), ff. 174v-177r, Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia (anon.)

D-Mbs 3154, ff. 359v-362r, Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia (anon. a 5)

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Source	Motet incipit	Attribution	Rubric	Cycle / Text
I-Mfd [4] 060v-061r	Sancti spiritus adsit ID: M096	- Anonymous	-	C28 Sancti spiritus adsit T096 Sancti spiritus adsit