Notre Dame de Rouen. The façade of the Gothic Church in France. Photographer: Hippo1947. Licence: SHUTTERSTOCK.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Psalm 50 (The Miserere). One Of The Seven Penitential Psalms. Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere".



English: Saint Augustine of Hippo.

Deutsch: Hl. Augustinus in betrachtendem Gebet.
Four of the Penitential Psalms were well known to Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Artist: Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510).
Date: Circa 1480.
Current location: Florence, Italy.
Notes: Deutsch: Auftraggeber: wahrscheinlich aus der Familie der Vespucci (Wappen).
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
Permission: [1].
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The Penitential Psalms, or Psalms of Confession, so named in Cassiodorus's commentary of the 6th-Century A.D., are Psalms 6, 32, 38, 50, 102, 130, and 143 (6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 in the Septuagint numbering).

Psalm 6.      Domine ne in furore tuo (Pro octava).
Psalm 32.    Beati quorum remissae sunt iniquitates.
Psalm 38.    Domine ne in furore tuo (In rememorationem de sabbato).
Psalm 50.    Miserere mei Deus.
Psalm 102.  Domine exaudi orationem meam et clamor meus ad te veniat.
Psalm 130.  De profundis clamavi.
Psalm 143.  Domine exaudi orationem meam auribus percipe obsecrationem meam.



MISERERE MEI DEUS
(One of the Seven Penitential Psalms)



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3 comments:

  1. Gatepost productionsWednesday, 22 May, 2013

    Oh my goodness, that sounds beautiful, and it opens with those cloisters!!

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  2. ZephyrinusWednesday, 22 May, 2013

    Thanks, John.

    Delighted you like it.

    Let's see what other Cloisters I can find for you.

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  3. Gatepost productionsFriday, 24 May, 2013

    Twitch!

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