T184 Hora completorii

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Jesus
To/about the Holy Cross
Standardised text incipit: 
Hora completorii
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiB, no. 21, ff. 54v-55r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Hora completorii datur sepulturae
Corpus Christi nobile, spes vitae futurae.
Conditur aromate, complentur scripturae,
Iugis sit memoria mortis mihi curae.

English translation: 

At the close of day the noble body of Christ, hope of future life, is given to the grave.
(His body) is treated with the good smelling oil, the scriptures are fulfilled. May the never ending memory of (His) death be my cure.

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

Hymn 'De Passione Domini, ad completorium', AH 30, No. 13, pp. 32-35, st. 7
memoria] memoriae
mortis] mors haec

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

D-Mbs 3154, f. 48v, Datur sepulture corpus (anon. a 4) (= M256, T256)

Further notes: 

Continuation of T178-183.