T261 O domine Iesu Christe adoro te descendentem ad inferos

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Jesus
To/about the Holy Cross
Standardised text incipit: 
O domine Iesu Christe adoro te descendentem ad inferos
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Bc Q.20, No. 36: ff. 51v (S), 51v (A), 51v (T), 51v (B)
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

O domine Iesu Christe adoro te descendentem ad inferos liberantemque captivos. Deprecor te ne permittas me illuc introire.

English translation: 

O Lord Jesus Christ, I adore you, who descend into hell and free the prisoners. I pray you, not to allow that I enter it.

Description: 

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

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

See Baroffio's CIP.

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

Ulhard 1545, No. 23.5, O domine Iesu Christe adoro te descendentem ad inferos (H.Finck) (=M289)

T152–156 and T262 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
ne permittas me] ut non me permittas

Literature: 
BLACKBURN 1997
, 595-603
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.

Motets with this text

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Bc Q.20
No. 36: S:051v A:051v T:051v B:051v 		O domine Iesu Christe adoro te descendentem ad inferos
ID: M261 		Maistre Jan
Maistre Jhan 		Quinta Pars C57 O domine Iesu Christe
T261 O domine Iesu Christe adoro te descendentem ad inferos