T183 De cruce deponitur

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Jesus
To/about the Holy Cross
Standardised text incipit: 
De cruce deponitur
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiB, no. 21, ff. 53v-54r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

De cruce deponitur hora vespertina,
Fortitudo latuit in mente divina.
Talem mortem subiit vitae medicina,
Heu, corona gloriae iacuit supina.

English translation: 

He is taken down from the cross at the evening hour, the strength hid in the mind of God.
Such a death suffered (our) life's medicine, alack, the crown of glory laid thrown down.

 

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 vesperas', AH 30, No. 13, pp. 32-35, st. 6
 

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

MS 3154, ff. 47v-48r, Fortitudo latuit (anon. a 4) (= M255, T255)

Further notes: 

Continuation of T178-182, continued in T184.