O bone Jesus

O bone Jesu is a motet by the Renaissance composer Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (1535 / 36–1592) for four-part a cappella choir . There is also a two-choir choir on the same theme but with a different text version, possibly borrowed from the Anima Christi . Like many other works by Ingegneri, the composition was long ascribed to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1514 / 15–1594), but from whom only an arrangement for six-part choir comes.

text

Four-part version
Latin	translation
O bone Jesu, miserere nobis, quia tu creasti nos, tu redemisti nos sanguine tuo pretiosissimo.	O good Jesus, have mercy on us, as you created us, so you have redeemed us through your most precious blood.

Double-choir and six-part versions
Latin	translation
O bone Jesu, exaudi me Et ne permittas me separari a te Ab hoste maligno defende me In hora mortis meae Voca me et pone me juxta te Ut cum angelis et sanctis tuis Laudem te, Dominum, Salvatorem meum In saecula saeculorum. Amen.	O dear Jesus, hear me and do not allow me to be separated from you by the evil enemy, defend myself in the hour of my death, call me and stand next to you, so that I, with your angels and saints , I can meet you, my Lord and Savior, forever and ever give praise . Amen.

O bone Jesu sung by the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford