IV. 4. SANCTUS BENEDICTUS

Mass: Praefationes 

LATIN

Missale Romanum

1. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt c‘li
et terra gloria tua. 
2. Hosanna in excelsis. Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis.

NB SOURCES
1: Isaiah 6:3: sanctus sanctus sanctus Dominus exercituuum plena
est omnis terra gloria eius, and thus Apoc. 4:8, sanctus sanctus
sanctus Dominus Deus omnipotens qui erat et qui est et qui venturus
est. Also Num. 14:21, et implebitur gloria Domini universa terra.
2: Matt. 21:9: osanna Filio David benedictus qui venturus est in
nomine Domini osanna in altissimi, also Matt. 23:39, benedictus qui
venit in nomine Domini, Luke 13:35, benedictus qui venit in nomine
Domini, and Luke 19:38, benedictus qui venit rex in nomine Domini,
pax in caelo et gloria in excelsis.
O.T. original source is Ps. 117:26, [Gall.] benedictus qui venturus
est in nomine Domini/ [Heb.] benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini,
and Ps. 148:1 [Gall./Heb.] Laudate Dominum de caelis, laudate eum
in excelsis. Consider also Luke 2:14, gloria in altissimis Deo et
in terra pax in hominibus bonae voluntatis.

LITURGICAL COGNATES:

Gloria in excelsis.

HOMILIES

AELFRIC

CATHOLIC HOMILIES II

I. "In Letania Maiore. Feria Tertia"; B.1.2.25; Godden XX, 195.
in MSS CUL Gg.3.28, fols 199v-202v; Oxford, Bodley 342, fols 27v-
34; Oxford, Bodleian Hatton 115, fols 37v-53v; BL Cotton Vespasian
D.xiv, fols 123-30v.

[partial]: "SANCTUS SANCTUS SANCTUS. Dominus deus sabaoth".

LIVES OF SAINTS

I. "Passio Sancti Marci, Evangeliste"; B.1.3.16; Skeat XV, 334.
in MSS CUL Ii.1.33, fols 110-14; CCCC 198, fols 295-8v; BL Cotton
Julius E.vii, fols 74-77; BL Cotton Vitellius D.xvii, fols '48',
'50', [fire-damaged] (context also Apoc. 4:8):

"SANCTUS. SANCTUS. SANCTUS. dominus deus omnipotens. qui erat. et
qui est. et qui venturus est."

AELFRIC: ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT

I. B.1.8.4. Crawford 1922, 68-9.
in MSS Oxford, Bodleian Laud Misc. 509, fols 120v-141v; Oxford,
Bodleian Bodley 343, fols. 129-132.

[partial] "Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth"