O bone Jesu (Pierre de Manchicourt)
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- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2013-12-07). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 50 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Anon ('Incertus autor') Source: Liber quartus eccles. cant., Susato 1554.
General Information
Title: O bone Jesu
Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1554 in Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum, liber 4, no. 11
2nd published: 1560 in Monasterio de S Maria, Montserrat, MS 772 (Líber quatuor missarum musicalium … a Petro de Manchicourt …)
Description: Although inscribed in the 1554 source with the header incertus autor, the appearance of this motet in the 1560 collection enables confident attribution to Pierre de Manchicourt.
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Original text and translations
(The text appears as one long sentence in the source, without punctuation or capital letters except for ‘Iesu’, so the text division is editorial; the third and fourth sentences are apparently quoted from a prayer for mercy written by St Augustine.)
Latin text O bone Iesu, salvator mundi, miserere nobis. |
English translation Gentle Jesus, saviour of the world, have mercy on us. |