T152a O domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Jesus
To/about the Holy Cross
Standardised text incipit: 
O domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiB, No. 2, ff. 2v-3r; I-Bc Q.20, No. 36, f. 49v
Translation: NJE 22.1, rev. Eva Ferro

Full text: 

O domine Iesu Christe, adoro te in cruce pendentem et coronam spineam in capite portantem. Deprecor te ut ipsa crux liberet me ab angelo percutiente.

English translation: 

O Lord Jesus Christ, I adore thee hanging on the cross, wearing the crown of thorns upon thy head.
I beseech thee that this same cross may deliver me from the angel that smiteth.

 

Description: 

From the so-called prayers of St. Gregory on the Passion of the Lord.

Subject: 
Christ; Passion; the Cross
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Holy Cross
Passion rituals and observances
the Wounds of Jesus
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

See Baroffio's CIP.

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

Scotto 1539, No. 14.1, O  O domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem (A. Willaert) (=M293)
Ulhard 1545, No. 23.1, O domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem (H. Finck) (=M285, T152b)

T153–156 and T261–262 all derive from the same set of prayers.

Related texts in other sources: 

Among the Sforza-related sources, see for instance GB-Lbl Add. 34294, f. 167v, where the prayers of St. Gregory appear facing a full-page imago pietatis
et coronam] coronam
ipsa] tua

Literature: 
BLACKBURN 1997
, 595-603
DRAKE 1997
NJE 22
, No. 1
DUFFY 2005
, 238-242
BOYNTON 2013
, 120-121
Further notes: 

For the early medieval origins of the prayers of St. Gregory, their association with the Man of Sorrow and the so-called Imago pietatis, and the related indulgences, see BLACKBURN 1997, 595-603, BOYNTON 2013, 120-121 and DUFFY 2005, 238-242.