Agnus Christus (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Mick_Swithinbank (submitted 2012-12-03). Score information: A4, 14 pages, 96 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: In the original key and with original note values, but modern clefs. In retrospect, the editor would have wished to add editorial flats to the two Es in bar 171.
General Information
Title: Agnus Christus
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: STTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1553
Description: Source: Ecclesiasticarum cantionum 4 vocum, liber 2, Susato, Antwerp. The composer is indicated as being 'Incertus author'.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Agnus Christus in cruce immolatur pro omnibus,
non ei adhesit Petrus qui dicebat pro te moriar,
reliquit eum Thomas qui clamabat dicens omnes cum eo moriar
et nullus ex illis, sed hic solus moritur.
Hic solus dolores nostros tulit
et languores hic solus portavit.
Venite et videte coeli Rex Christus quare pependit in cruce,
solus hic dolores nostros tulit.
English translation
Christ the lamb was sacrificed on the cross for all mankind.
Peter did not stay with him, who had said he would die for him.
Thomas abandoned him, who had exclaimed that all would die with him.
And none of them, but only he himself, died.
He alone bore our sorrows and our weaknesses.
Come and see how Christ, the king of Heaven, hangs on the cross.
He alone bore our sorrows.