This anonymous Latin Passiontide hymn appears in Hermann Adalbert Daniel's Thesaurus Hymnologicus (vol. ii, p. 345), Karl Joseph Simrock's collection (p. 110), and the Cologne Corolla Hymnorum (1806, p. 17). Wilhelm Bäumker cites its publication in the Sirenes Symphoniacae (1678).
In his Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences (3rd ed., 1867, p. 214), John Mason Neale evaluated the hymn alongside "Exite, Sion filiae," placing its origin in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Neale noted that its intensely subjective tone and the use of feminine double rhymes in iambic meter distinguish it from earlier medieval hymnody, while observing that its emotional depth offers considerable beauty for modern devotional use.
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