"Adoro te deuote" : Zur Lösung einer alten Crux
Robert Wielockx
The incipit Adoro te deuote, frequently attested in the manuscript tradition, must be eliminated as inauthentic because of a fourfold anomaly it implies. Unlike other interventions text first hemistich Oratio, reading Te deuote laudo does not create problems textual criticism or versification. What is more, harmony with linguistic and doctrinal context Aquinas' works, especially his Eucharistic above all fits very well Thomas' versification, only within but also by comparison four hymns Office Corpus Christi. According to its literary genre unlike Christi conceived choral songs (Lauda Sion) song crowd, this prayer an Oratio infra canonem. Sitz im Leben personal silent non-celebrant before two species after their consecration. corruption was almost unavoidable, since, already oldest tradition known us - sixty years separate from origin -, mistakenly considered elevation and, often happened later on, transmitted Liber precum among prayers kind. As early beginning 13 th Century these began regularly formula under influence popular for adoration Holy Cross which, he Carolingian Age, were universally spread.
Annales theologici