T140 Sancti spiritus adsit

Tags: 
Verse
Composite text
To/about the Holy Spirit
Standardised text incipit: 
Sancti spiritus adsit
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd [4], ff. 124v-125r
Translation: CMM 106.3 (Ruskin Watts), rev. Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Sancti spiritus adsit nobis gratia
quae corda nostra sibi faciat habitacula.
Spiritus alme illustrator cordium
horridas nostrae mentis purga tenebras.

Veni creator spiritus,
mentes tuorum visita.
imple superna gratia
quae tu creasti pectora.

 

English translation: 

The holy spirit's favour be among us,
That he makes himself our hearts his home.
Nourishing spirit, illumination of the hearts,
Purge the horrid darkness of our mind.

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...habitacula = Sequence for Pentecost, ascribed to Notker, AH 53, No. 70, pp. 119-122, st. 1-2
adsit] assit
habitacula] habitaculum

Spiritus...tenebras = Sequence for Pentecost, ascribed to Notker, AH 53, No. 70, pp. 119-122, st. 4-5
cordium] hominum

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. 60v-61r, Sancti Spiritus adsit (anon. a 4) (= M096, T096)

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)

Related texts in other sources: 

Sequence for Pentecost, in Zarotto 1474, ff. 95v-96.

Literature: 
CMM 106.3
PAVANELLO 2009
, 151
Further notes: