T180 Crucifige clamitant

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Jesus
To/about the Holy Cross
Standardised text incipit: 
Crucifige clamitant
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 50v-51r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Crucifige clamitant hora tertiarum, 
Illusus induitur veste purpurarum.
Caput eius pungitur corona spinarum,
Crucem portans humeris ad loca poenarum.

English translation: 

“Crucify (him)” they scream at the third hour, the innocent is dressed with a red gown.
His forehead is pierced with a crown of thorns, and (He) carries a cross on his shoulders to the places of tortures.

 

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

Hymn De Passione Domini, ad tertiam, AH 30, No. 13, pp. 32-35, st. 3
portans humeris] portat umeris
loca] locum

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

D-Mbs 3154, ff. 45v-46r, Crucifige clamitant (anon. a 4) (= M253, T253)

Further notes: 

Continuation of T178-179, continued in T181-184.