T154 O domine Iesu Christe adoro te in sepulcro positum

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

Full text: MotettiB, No. 2, ff. 4v-5r; I-Bc Q.20, No. 36, f. 51r
Translation: NJE 22.1

Full text: 

O Domine Iesu Christe adoro te in sepulcro positum mirra et aromatibus conditum. Deprecor te ut tua mors sit vita mea.

English translation: 

O Lord Jesus Christ, I adore thee laid in the sepulchre, embalmed with myrrh and spices. I beseech thee that thy death may be my life.

Description: 

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

Subject: 
Christ; Passion; the Cross; Deposition
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: 

Ulhard 1545, No. 23.3, O domine Iesu Christe adoro te in sepulcro positum (H. FincK) (=M287)

T152–156 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
mirra et aromatibus] mirre aromatibusque

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.