Kyries tenebrarum

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I-Nn Cod. I.E.32, ff. 250r-262r

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[Feria V]
Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
Qui passurus advenisti propter nos, qui expansis in cruce manibus traxisti omnia ad te saecula. Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
Qui prophetice promisisti ero mors tua, o mors. Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
[Mortem, mortem autem crucis.]

[Feria VI]
Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
Vita in ligno moritur infernus et mors lugens spoliatur. Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
Te qui vinceri voluisti nosque a mortis vinculis eripuisti. Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
[Mortem, mortem autem crucis.]

[Sabbato]
Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
Idem in ligno pependit hac die immolatur: hodie genitor mortis est ab illo. Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
Sancti qui tenebantur in morte captivi voce lacrimabili clamaverunt: advenisti redemptor mundi quem expectabamus. Kyrie eleison.
[Christe eleison.]
[Kyrie eleison.]
Domine, miserere.
[Christus dominus factus est obediens usque ad mortem, mortem autem crucis.]
[Mortem, mortem autem crucis.]

Notes

The texts and the ordering of the verses follow the use of the Portuguese Royal Chapel as shown in Formoso, Diogo Fernandes, ed., Passionarium secundum ritum capelle Regis Lusitanie (Lisboa: Luís Rodrigues, 1543), although without the improvements in wording this source offers.

Bibliography

Alvarenga, João Pedro d’, “Textual and Chant Traditions of the Kyries tenebrarum in Portugal, and Polyphony around 1500”, Portuguese Journal of Musicology, new series, 6/1 (2019), 91-112 <http://rpm-ns.pt/index.php/rpm/article/view/363/641>

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