T177 Adoramus te Christe

Tags: 
Prose
Composite text
To/about Jesus
To/about the Holy Cross
Standardised text incipit: 
Adoramus te Christe
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 47v-48r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Adoramus te Christe et benedicimus tibi, quia per sanctam crucem tuam redemisti mundum.

Qui passus es pro nobis miserere nobis.

English translation: 

We adore you Christ and we praise you, because you redeemed the world through your holy cross.

You who suffered for us, have mercy on us.

Subject: 
Christ; Passion; the Cross
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Holy Cross observances
Short Office of the Cross
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Adoramus ... mundum = multipurpose antiphon for the Holy Cross, used e.g. in the Short Office of the Cross, in Good Friday observances, for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (Cantus ID 001287), etc.

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 
I-Mfd 1, ff. 167v-168r, Adoramus te Christe (L. Compère) ( = M056, T056)

I-Mfd 3, ff. 131v-132r, Adoramus te Christe (L. Compère) (= M076, T076)

I-Mfd [4], ff. 76v-77r, Bone Iesu dulcis Christe (Anon.) (= M110, T110)

D-Mbs 3154, ff. 46v-47r, Iugo est crucis conclavatus (anon. a 4) (= M254, T254)
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