Domine, quis habitabit (Robert Parsons)

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• (Posted 2026-01-20)  CPDL #31421:  Original pitch and note values:    
• (Posted 2026-01-20)  CPDL #88129:  Transposed down a fourth to compensate for the high clefs. Original note values:    
• (Posted 2026-01-20)  CPDL #88128:  Transposed down a tone for SSAATB. Original note values.    
• (Posted 2014-03-07)  CPDL #88127:  Transposed down a tone for SSAATB. Note values halved. Revised edition 2026.    

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2026-01-20).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 252 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the surviving early manuscripts. Missing tenor part reconstructed by the editor.

• (Posted 2002-07-07)  CPDL #04104:   

Editors: George Steel and Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2002-07-07).   Score information: 20 x 27 cm, 8 pages, 72 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Editorial tenor part by Mick Swithinbank. Revised 2010-06-10. Part of the Robert Parsons Project.

General Information

Title: Domine, quis habitabit
Composer: Robert Parsons

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB or SSTTBarB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 127
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text Domine, quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo aut quis requiescet in monte sancto tuo? Qui ingreditur sine macula: et operatur justiciam. Qui loquitur veritatem in corde suo: qui non egit dolum in lingua sua. Nec fecit proximo suo malum: et opprobrium non accepit adversus proximos suos.

English translation Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbour no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman.