Jesu summa benignitas (Ruggiero Giovannelli)

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  • (Posted 2016-08-16)  CPDL #40808:       
Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2016-08-16).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 43 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from Secunda anthologia vocalis.

General Information

Title: Jesu summa benignitas
Composer: Ruggiero Giovannelli
Source of text: vv.21-22 of [[Jesu dulcis memoria}}.

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SSA

Genre: SacredMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published:

Description: Tex

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

21  Jesu summa benignitas
Mira cordis jucunditas,
incomprehensa bonitas,
tua me stringit charitas.

22  Bonum mihi diligere
Jesum, non ultra quaerere:
Mihi prorsus deficere
Ut illi queam vivere.

English.png English translation

21  O kindness, infinite, supreme!
My joy and true repose!
O depth of charity extreme,
Which no abatement knows!
 
22  'Tis good that I my love should give
Save Thee to none beside ;
And dying to myself, should live
For Jesus crucified!

Translation by Edward Caswall