Hic est discipulus ille (Nicolas Gombert)
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Title: Hic est discipulus ille
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
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Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: STTBarB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1538 in Primus liber cum quinque vocibus - Mottetti del frutto (Antonio Gardano), no. 5
2nd published: 1539 in Quartus liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex voces (Jacques Moderne), no. 18
3rd published: 1539 (August) in Cantiones quinque vocum selectissimae (Peter Schöffer), no. 10
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Hic est discipulus ille, quem diligebat Jesus,
cui revelata sunt secreta cælestia,
qui supra pectus Domini in cæna recubuit;
apostolus et evangelista factus est præclarissimus,
de quo scriptum est,
Et facies aquilæ desuper ipsorum quatuor,
et volavit super pennas ventorum
usque ad montem Libani,
et accepit medullam cedri.
Et vox clara intonuit dicens,
In principio erat verbum,
et verbum erat apud Deum,
et Deus erat verbum,
et verbum caro factum est,
et habitavit in nobis, alleluia.