T179 Hora prima ductus est

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Jesus
To/about the Holy Cross
Standardised text incipit: 
Hora prima ductus est
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 49v-50r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Hora prima ductus est Iesus ad Pilatum
Et a falsis testibus multum accusatum.
Colaphis percutiunt manibus ligatum
Vultum dei conspuunt, lumen caeli gratum.

English translation: 

At the first hour Jesus was brought before Pilatus and he was heavily accused by false witnesses.
Him, whose hands are tied, they strike down with fists, they spit on God's countenance, gracious light of Heaven.

 

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

Hymn De Passione Domini, ad primam, AH 30, No. 13, pp. 32-35, st. 2
et a falsis testibus] falsis testimoniis
colaphis] in collo

 

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

D-Mbs 3154 f. 44v, Hora prima ductus est (anon. a 4) (= M251, T251)
 

Further notes: 

Continuation of T178, continued in T180-184.