BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
The first sources of the Latin hymns and sequences are the manuscript
and printed breviaries and missals of the Western Church. Both these
have been explored by the collectors from Clichtove to Kehrein, although
it cannot be said that the examination has been exhaustive either as
regards the manuscripts or the printed books.
The following is an approximate list of the printed breviaries which
have been examined by modern collectors:
LOCAL BREVIARIES.
Aberdonense, Aberdeen, 1509-10, Daniel.
Ambrosianum, Milan, 1557, Neale, Morel, Zabuesnig.
Argentinense, Strasburg, 1520, Neale.
Basiliense, Basel, 1493, Morel.
Bracharense, 1494, Neale.
Caduncense, Cahors, Neale.
Coloniense, Koeln, 1521, Zabuesnig.
Constantiense, Konstanz, 1504, 1516, Morel, Daniel.
Cordubiense, Cordova, 1583, Morel.
Cracoviense, Krakau, 1524, Morel.
Curiense, Kur, c. 1500, Morel.
Eboracense, York, Neale, Newman.
Erfordense, Erfurt, 1518, Daniel.
Friburgense, Freiburg, Daniel.
Gallicum, France, 1527, Morel.
Halberstadtense, Halberstadt, 1515, Daniel.
Havelbergense, Havelberg, 1518, Daniel.
Herefordense, Hereford, 1505, Neale.
Lengres, Daniel.
Lundense, Lund, 1517, Daniel.
Magdeburgense, Magdeburg, 1514, Daniel.
Merseburgense, Merseburg, 1504, Daniel.
Mindense, Minden, 1490, Daniel.
Misniense, Meissen, 1490, Daniel.
Mozarabicum, Old Spanish, 1775, Daniel.
Parisiense vet., Paris (old), 1527, Neale.
Parisiense, 1736, Newman, Zabuesnig.
Pictaviense, Poitou, 1515, Daniel.
Placentinum, Piacenza, 1503, Morel.
Romanum vet., Rome (old), 1481, Kehrein.
1484, 1520,
1497, Daniel.
1543, Morel.
Romanum, Rome (new), 1631, Zabuesnig, Daniel.
Roschildense, Roeskild, 1517, Daniel.
Salisburgense, Salzburg, 1515, Neale, Daniel.
Sarisburense, Salisbury, 1555, Neale, Daniel, Newman.
Slesvicense, Schleswig, 1512, Daniel.
Spirense, Speier, 1478, Zabuesnig.
Tornacense, Tournay, 1540, Neale.
Tullense, Toul, 1780, Daniel.
MONASTIC BREVIARIES.
Augustinianorum, 1557, Morel, Zabuesnig, Neale.
Benedictinorum, 1518, 1543, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
Canonum Reg. Augustini, Zabuesnig.
Carmelitarum, 1759, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
Carthusianorum, 1500, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
Cisterciensium, 1510, 1752, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
Franciscanorum, 1481, 1486, 1495, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
Humiliatorum, 1483, Neale.
Praemonstratensium, 1741, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
Praedicatorum, 1482, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
Servorum Mariae, 1643, Daniel, Zabuesnig.
LOCAL MISSALS.
Aboense, Abo, 1488, Daniel, Neale.
Ambianense, Amiens, 1529, Neale.
Aquiliense, Aquileia, Daniel.
Argentinense, Strasburg, 1520, Neale.
Athanatense, St. Yrieix, 1531, Morel.
Atrebatense, Arras, 1510, Neale.
Augustense, Augsburg, 1510, Kehrein.
Brandenburgense, Brandenburg, C., 1500, Daniel.
Bursfeldense, Bursfeld, 1518, Kehrein.
Coloniense, Koeln, 1504, 1520, Daniel, Kehrein.
Eychstadense Eichstädt, 1500, Daniel.
Frisingense, Freysingen, 1514, Daniel.
Hafniense, Copenhagen, Neale.
Halberstatense, Halberstadt, 1511, Kehrein.
Herbipolense, Würzburg, 1509, Neale, Kehrein.
Leodiense, Liege, 1513, Neale.
Lubecense, Lubeck, C., 1480, Wackernagel.
Magdeburgense, Magdeburg, 1493, Wackernagel.
Mindense, Minden, 1515, Daniel, Kehrein.
Moguntinum, Mainz, 1482, 1497, Mone, Wackernagel.
1507, 1513, Kehrein, Neale.
Morinense, Neale.
Narbonense, Narbonne, 1528, Neale.
Nidriosense, Trondhjem, 1519, Neale.
Noviemsense, Noyon, 1506, Neale.
Numburgense, Naumburg, 1501, 1507, Wackernagel, Daniel.
Parisiense vet., Paris (old), 1516, Neale.
Parisiense, 1739, Newman.
Pataviense, Padua, 1491, Daniel.
Pictaviense, Poitou, 1524, Neale.
Pragense, Prag, 1507, 1522, Neale, Daniel, Kehrein.
Ratisbonense, Regensburg, 1492, Daniel, Neale.
Redonense, Rennes, 1523, Neale.
Salisburgense, Salzburg, 1515, Neale.
Sarisburense Salisbury, 1555, Neale.
Spirense, Speier, 1498, Neale.
Strengnense, Strengnaes, 1487, Neale.
Tornacense, Tournay, 1540, Neale.
Trajectense, Utrecht, 1513, Neale.
Upsalense, Upsal, 1513, Neale.
Verdense, Verden, 1500, Neale.
Xantonense Saintes, 1491, Neale.
MONASTIC MISSALS.
Benedictinorum, 1498, Neale, Kehrein.
Cistercensium, 1504, Daniel.
Franciscanorum, 1520, Kehrein.
Praemonstratensium, 1530, Daniel.
Praedicatorum, 1500, Zabuesnig.
Of lesser church-books Zabuesnig has used the _Processionale_ of the
Dominicans or Preachers, and Newman that of the Church of York. Morel
has drawn upon the Paris _Horae_ of 1519, and Daniel on the _Cantionale_
of Konstanz of 1607.
Yet this shows that either only a minority of the printed church-books
of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been examined, or else
that the majority yielded nothing new in return for such examination.
We proceed with the bibliography of the collections and the historical
treatises and discussions which bear on Latin Hymnology, together with
the most important volumes of translations. These we shall give in
chronological order, and where the initials S. W. D. are appended to the
comments, it will be understood that these are by Mr. Duffield, not by
his editor. The numbers marked with an asterisk (*) indicate works
employed in the preparation of the present volume.
1. Sequentiarum Textus cum optimo Commento. (S. l. e. a.)
Printed at Koeln (Cologne) by Henry Quentell in 1492 or 1494.
The following is bound up with the early editions of this as a
kind of appendix, but afterward frequently printed by itself.
2. Expositio Hymnorum cum notabili [_seu_ familiari] Commento. (S. l. e.
a.)
Also printed at Koeln by Henry Quentell in 1492 or 1494, and
1506. Later editions are: Hagenau, 1493; Basil, 1504; Koeln,
1596; and many others.
For the full reference, _vide_ Daniel, I.: xvii. There were many
of these, and the most famous was long regarded as indispensable
to the study of the Latin hymns. It is that of Clichtove. S.W.D.
3. _Liber hymnorum in metra noviter redactorum. Apologia et defensio
poeticae ac oratoriae maiestatis. Brevis expositio difficilium
terminorum in hymnis ab aliis parum probe et erudite forsan
interpretatorum per Henricum Bebelium I ustingensem edita poeticam
et humaniores litteras publice profitentem in gymnasio Tubingensi.
Annotationes eiusdem in quasdam vocabulorum interpretationes
Mammetracti. Thubingen,_ 1501.
Henry Bebel was a humanist, and became professor at Tübingen in
1497. Zapf published a biography of him at Augsburg in 1801.
4. _Hymni et Sequentiae cum diligenti difficillimorum vocabulorum
interpretatione omnibus et scholasticis et ecclesiasticis cognitu
necessaria Hermanni Torrentini de omnibus puritatis lingue latine
studiosis quam optime meriti.—Coloniae, MCCCCCXIII_.
Daniel says that a second edition (1550, 1536?) has so closely
followed Clichtoveus that the first edition only is worthy of
note.
Hermann Torrentinus was a native of Zwolle, and belonged to the
Brotherhood of the Common Life. He was professor at Groningen
about 1490, and lived until about 1520. He was one of the group
which gathered around John Wessel Gansfort, in whom Luther
recognized a kindred spirit.
5. _De tempore et sanctis per totum annum hymnarius in metra ut ab
Ambrosio, Sedulio, Prudentio ceterisque doctoribus hymni sunt
compositi. Groningen phrisie iam noviter redactus incipit
feliciter._
6. _Psalterium Davidis adiunctis hymnis felicem habet finem opera et
impensis Melchior Lotters ducalis opidi Liptzensis concivis Anno
Milesimo quingentesimo undecimo XVIII die Aprilis_ [1511].
7.* Iodoci Clichtovaei Elucidatorium ecclesiasticum ad Officium
Ecclesiae pertinentia planius exponens et quatuor Libros
complectens. Primus Hymnos de Tempore et Sanctis per totum Annum.
Secundus nonnulla Cantica, Antiphonas et Responsaria. Tertius ea
quae ad Missae pertinet Officium, praesertim Praefationes. Quartus
Prosas quae in sancti Altaris Sacrificio dicuntur continet. Paris,
1515; Basil, 1517 and 1519; Venice, 1555; Paris, 1556; Koeln, 1732.
The best book of its time on the subject, and long indispensable
to the hymnologist. Josse Clichtove was a Flemish theologian. He
studied at Paris under the famous Lefevre d’Etaples, and enjoyed
the friendship of Erasmus. He was a zealous opponent of Luther.
He died in 1543. The Venice edition of his _Elucidatorium—Hymni
et Prosae, quae per totum Annum in Ecclesiâ leguntur_—is much
altered, and contains additional hymns from Italian, French, and
Hungarian Breviaries, while it also omits others given by
Clichtove.
8. _Hymni de tempore et de sanctis in eam formam qua a suis autoribus
scripti sunt denuo redacti et secundum legem carminis diligenter
emendati atque interpretati. Anno Domini, MDXIX._
Jacob Wimpheling is the editor. He was an eminent theologian and
humanist of Strasburg, and the first to edit Rabanus Maurus’s
_De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis_. Already in 1499 he had published a
tract: _De Hymnorum et Sequentiarum Auctoribus Generibusque
Carminum quae in Hymnis inveniuntur_. One authority gives 1511
as the date of his _Hymni_.
9. _Sequentiarum luculenta interpretatio nedum scholasticis sed et
ecclesiasticis cognitu necessaria per Ioannem Adelphum physicum
Argentinensem collecta. Anno Domini, MDXIX._
10. Jakob van Meyer: Hymni aliquot ecclesiastici et Carmina Pia.
Louvain, 1537.
11. Liber ecclesiasticorum carminum, cum alijs Hymnis et Prosis
exquisitissimis a sanctis orthodoxae fidei Patribus in usum piorum
mentium compositis. Basil, B. Westhemerus, 1538.
12. Laurentius Massorillus: Aureum Sacrorum Hymnorum Opus. Foligni,
1547.
13.* _Hymni ecclesiastici praesertim qui Ambrosiani dicuntur multis in
locis recogniti et multorum hymnorum accessione locupletati. Cum
Scholiis opportunis in locis adjectis et Hymnorum indice Georgii
Cassandri. Et, Beda de Metrorum generibus ex primo libra de re
metrica. Coloniae Anno MDLVI._
This was reprinted in Cassander’s Works (Parisiis, 1616).
Cassander was a Catholic, who sympathized with the Reformation,
and his book was prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church. “_In
Romana ecclesia liber est vetitus_,” says Daniel. With the
drawback that his knowledge and opportunities were limited by
the age in which he lived, it can still be said that this is a
very valuable and helpful collection—the scholarly work of an
earnest man. S. W. D.
14. Cantiones Ecclesiasticae Latinae ac Synceriores quaedam praeculae
Dominicis & Festis Diebus in Commemoratione Cenae Domini, per totius
Anni Circulum cantandae ac perlegendae. Per Johannem Spangenbergium
Ecclesiae Northusianae inspectorem. Magdeburg, 1543.
15_a_. Carmina vetusta ante trecentos scripta, quae deplorant inscitiam
Evangelii, et taxant abusus ceremoniarum, ac quae ostendunt
doctrinam hujus temporis non esse novam. Fulsit enim semper et
fulgebit in aliquibus vera Ecclesiae doctrina. Cum Praefatione
Matthiae Flacii Illyrici. Wittemberg, 1548.
15_b_. Pia quaedam vetustissima Poemata, partim Anti-Christum, ejusque
spirituales Filiolos insectantia, partim etiam Christum, ejusque
beneficium mira spiritus alacritate celebrantia. Cum praefatione
Matthiae Flacii Illyrici. Magdeburg, 1552.
15_c_. Varia Doctorum Piorumque Virorum de Corrupto Statu Ecclesiae
Poemata. Ante nostram aetatem conscripta, ex quibus multa historiae
quoque utiliter ac summa cum voluptate cognosci possunt. Cum
Praefatione Matthiae Flacii Illyrici. Magdeburg, 1556. Reprinted
1754.
These three collections are of importance to the hymnologist.
From the first Wackernagel has extracted a number of fine hymns.
The third contains Bernard of Cluny’s _De Contemptu Mundi_.
16. Hymni aliquot sacri veterum Patrum una cum eorum simplici
Paraphrasi, brevibus argumentis, singulis Carminum generibus, &
concinnis Melodijs ... Collectore Georgio Thymo. Goslar, 1552.
17. Psalmodia, hoc est Cantica Sacra veteris Ecclesiae selecta. Quo
ordine & Melodijs per totius anni curriculum cantari vsitate solent
in templis de Deo, & de filio ejus Iesv Christo, ... Et de Spiritv
Sancto.... Jam primum ad Ecclesiarum, & Scholarum vsum diligenter
collecta, et brevibus et pijs Scholijs illustrata per Lucam Lossium
Luneburgensem. Cum Praefatione Philippi Melanthonis. Wittemberg,
1552 and 1595; Nuremberg, 1553 and 1595.
Die Hymni, oder geistlichen Lobgeseng, wie man die in der Cystertienser
orden durchs gantz Jar singet. Mit hohem vleis verteutschet durch
Leonhardum Kethnerum. Nurnberg, 1555.
18. Hymni et Sequentiae, tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis, cum suis
Melodijs, sicut olim sunt cantatae in Ecclesia Dei, & jam passim
correcta, per M. Hermannum Bonnum, Superintendentem quondam
Ecclesiae Lubecensis, in vsum Christianae juventutis scholasticae
fideliter congesta & euulgata. Lubeck, 1559.
19. _Pauli Eberi, Psalmi seu cantica in ecclesia cantari solita.
Witteburgiae_, 1564.
20.* _Poetarum Veterum Ecclesiasticorum Opera Christiana et operum
reliquiae atque fragmenta. Thesaurus catholicae et orthodoxae
ecclesiae et antiquitatis religiosae ad utilitatem iuventutis
scholasticae, collectus, emendatus, digestus et commentario quoque
expositus diligentia et studio Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis.
Basileae per Ioannem Oporinum MDLXIIII._
A second edition in 1572. George Fabricius, of Chemnitz, besides
editing this important book, was the most prolific writer of
Latin hymns the Lutheran Church possessed.
21. Johann Leisentrit: Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen der alten
Apostolischer recht und warglaubiger Christlicher Kirchen. 2 parts.
Budissin, 1567.
Used by Wackernagel. Although Leisentrit was the Roman Catholic
dean of Budissin, his first part seems to have been censured as
of Protestant tendency. The second is made up of hymns to Mary
and the Saints. This part was reprinted in 1573 and 1584.
22. _Cantica Selecta Veteris Novique Testamenti cum Hymnis et Collectis
seu orationibus purioribus quae in orthodoxa atque catholica
ecclesia cantari solent. Addita dispositione et familiari
expositione Christophori Corneri. Lipsiae cum privilegio MDLXVIII._
A second edition in 1571, and a third in 1573.
23. Cantica ex sacris literis in ecclesia cantari solita cum hymnis et
collectis, etc., recognita et aucta per D. Georgium Maiorem.
Wittemberg, 1570.
23_b_. Hymni et Collectae, item Evangelia, Epistolae, etc., quae diebus
dominicis et festivis leguntur. Koeln, 1573.
24. Psalterium Davidis, etc., cum lemmatibus ac notis Adami Siberi.
Accesserunt Hymni festorum dierum insignium. Lipsiae, Iohannes
Rhamba excudebat Anno MDLXXVII.
25. _Hymnorum Ecclesiasticorum ab Andrea Ellingero V. Cl. emendatorum
libri III, etc. MDLXXVIII. Francofurti ad moenum._
Daniel calls this the most ample of all the collections, but he
criticises the first two volumes severely for their arrangement,
and the changes in text made for metrical reasons. The third
volume he was able to use, but he felt unsafe in the others
except when the editor positively stated in his notes what he
considered the original and genuine text. S. W. D.
26. Joh. Holthusius: Compendium Cantionum ecclesiasticarum. Augsburg,
1579.
27. _In hymnos ecclesiasticos ferme omnes Michaelis Timothei Gatensis
brevis elucidatio. Venetiae_, 1582.
28. Hymni et Collectae. Koeln, 1585.
29. Lorenza Strozzi: In singula totius Anni Solemnia Hymni. Florence,
1588.
These hymns were adopted into the service-books of several
dioceses, and were translated into French by Pavillon, and set
to music by Maduit. The author was a Dominican nun of the famous
Strozzi family.
30. Collectio Hymnorum per totum Annum. Antwerp, Plantin, 1593.
31. Francis Algermann: Ephemeris Hymnorum Ecclesiasticorum ex Patribus
selecta. Helmstadt, 1596.
With German translations.
32. Vesperale et Matutinale, hoc est Cantica, Hymni & Collectae, seu
Precationes ecclesiasticae quae in primis et secundis vesperis,
itemque matutinis Precibus, per totius Anni circulum, in ecclesiis,
& religiosis piorum congressibus cantari solent. 1599.
The author, Matthew Luidke, was deacon of the Church in
Havelberg, and aimed at the naturalization of the methods of the
old church books among Lutherans. Daniel gives this book the
palm among the Lutheran collections of the Latin hymns. Its
author also published a _Missale_, and died in 1606.
33. _Divorum patrum et doctorum ecclesiae qui oratione ligata
scripserunt Paraphrases et Meditationes in Evangelia dominicalia e
diversis ipsorum scriptis collectae a. M. Ioach. Zehnero ecclesiae
Schleusingensis pastore et Superintendente. Lipsiae_, 1602,
_sumptibus Thomae Schureri._
“_Liber utilissimus_,” Daniel. The author was a Protestant, and
a diligent student of the old hymns. S. W. D.
34.* Bernardi Morlanensis Monachi ordinis Cluniacensis De Vanitate
Mundi, et Gloriâ Caelesti, Liber Aureus. Item alij ejusdem Libri
Tres Ejusdem fermè Argumenti, Quibus cum primis in Curiae Romanae &
Cleri horrenda scelera stylo Satyrico carmine Rhithmico Dactylico
miro artificio ante annos fermè quingentos elaborato, gravissime
invehitur. Editi recens, et plurimis locis emendati, studio & opera
Eilh. Lubini. Rostochii, Typis Reusnerianis, Anno MDCX.
One hundred and twenty unnumbered pages in duodecimo, of which
three are filled by a dedicatory letter to Matthias Matthiae,
Lutheran pastor at Schwensdorf. Professor Lubinus gives no
account of the sources of his edition, but says of Bernard:
“Vixit hic Bernardus Anno Christo 1130. Scripsit colloquium
Gabrielis & Mariae. Item hosce, quos jam edimus, & non paucis
locis correximus, libros.”
35. _Card. Ioannis Bonae, de divina Psalmodia, tractatus, sive
psallentis Ecclesiae Harmonia._ Rome, 1653; Antwerp and Koeln, 1677;
Paris, 1678; Antwerp, 1723.
Also in his _Opera_, Turin, 1747.
36. Charles Guyet: Heortologia, sive de Festis propriis Locorum et
Ecclesiarum: Hymni propriae variarum Galliae Ecclesiarum revocati ad
Carminis et Latinitatis Leges. Folio. Paris, 1657; Urbino, 1728;
Venice, 1729.
37_a_. David Greg. Corner: Grosz Katholisch Gesangbuch. Furth bei Ge.,
1625.
37_b_. D. G. Corner: Cantionale. 1655.
37_c_. D. G. Corner: Promptuarium Catholicae Devotionis. Vienna, 1672.
37_d_. D. G. Corner: Horologium Christianae Pietatis. Heidelberg, 1688.
Contain many old Latin hymns. The third is used by Trench.
38. Andreas Eschenbach: Dissertatio de Poetis sacris Christianis.
Altdorf, 1685. (Reprinted in his _Dissertationes Academicae_.
Nuremberg, 1705.)
39. C. S. Schurzfleisch: Dissertatio de Hymnis veteris Ecclesiae.
Wittemberg, 1685.
40. Lud. Ant. Muratori: Anecdota quae ex Ambrosianae Bibliothecae
Codicibus nunc primum eruit, notis et disquisitionibus auxit. 2
vols. in quarto. Milan, 1697-98.
Contains the Bangor Antiphonary and the hymns of Paulinus of
Nola.
41. Hymni spirituales pro diversis Animae Christianae Statibus. Paris,
1713.
42_a_. Polycarp Leyser: Dissertatio de ficta Medii Aevi Barbarie,
imprimis circa Poesin Latinam. Helmstadt, 1719.
42_b_. Pol. Leyser: Historia Poetarum et Poematum Medii Aevi. Halle,
1721.
42_c_.* J. G. Walch: De Hymnis Ecclesiae Apostolicae. Jena, 1737.
(Reprinted in his Miscellanea Sacra: Amsterdam, 1744.)
43.* _Josephi Mariae Thomasii S.R.E. Cardinalis Opera omnia.—Rome_,
1741, in 6 vols., folio, and 1747 et seq. in 12 vols., 4to. (The
Hymnarium is found in pages 351-434 of Vol. II., in the 4to
edition.)
“This book,” remarks Daniel, “is sufficiently rare in Germany,
but the editor of sacred hymns can by no means do without it.”
The reason is that Thomasius had access to the Vatican MSS., and
was therefore able to unearth many rare and valuable texts. He
also designated the probable authorship of a goodly number of
the hymns—not always correctly, but usually with considerable
truth. S. W. D.
44. Peter Zorn: De Hymnorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Collectoribus. In
his Opuscula Sacra, Altona, 1731 and 1743.
44_b_. D. Galle: De Hymnis Ecclesiae veteris. Wittemberg, 1736. Pp. 16,
4to.
45. _I. H. a Seelen, de poesi Christ. non a tertio post. Chr. nat.
seculo, etc., deducenda.—Lubecae_, 1754.
46. J. G. Baumann: De Hymnis et Hymnopoeis veteris et recentioris
Ecclesiae. Bremen, 1765.
47_a_. Mart. Gerbert: De Cantu et Musica Sacra, a prima Ecclesiae aetate
usque ad praesens tempus. 2 vols., 4to. St. Blaise, 1774.
47_b_. Mart. Gerbert: Scriptores Ecclesiastici de Musica Sacra,
potessimum ex variis Italiae, Galliae et Germaniae Manuscriptis
collecti, et nunc primum publicâ luce donati. 3 vols., 4to. St.
Blaise, 1784.
This product of unwearied research contains, _inter alia_,
treatises by Alcuin, Notker Labeo, Odo of Cluny, Guido of
Arezzo, Hermann the Lame, Engelbert of Admont. Martin Gerbert
(1720-93) was prince-abbot of St. Blaise in the Black Forest.
48_a_. Faustino Arevalo: Hymnodia Hispanica ad Cantus Latinitatis,
Metrique leges revocata et aucta; praemittitur Dissertatio de Hymnis
ecclesiasticis eorumque correctione atque optima constitutione;
Accedunt Appendix de festo conversionis Gothorum instituendo;
Breviarii Quignoniani fata, etc. Rome, 1786.
48_b_. Faustino Arevalo: Poetate Christiani: Prudentius, Dracontius,
Juvencus, et Sedulius. 5 vols., quarto. Rome, 1788-94.
The former of these works has been much used by Neale and
Daniel.
49. (Walraff:) Corolla Hymnorum sacrorum publicae devotioni
inservientium. Veteres electi sed mendis quibus iteratis in
editionibus scatebant detersi, strophis adaucti. Novi adsumpti,
recentes primum inserti. Koeln, 1806.
Taken chiefly from the _Psalteriolum Cantionum_ of the Society
of Jesus, of which the sixteenth edition had appeared in 1792 in
the same city.
50. _F. Münter: Ueber die älteste Christliche Poesie.—Kopenhagen_, 1806.
51.* Anthologie christlicher Gesänge aus allen Jahrhunderten der Kirche
nach der Zeitfolge geordnet und mit geschichtlichen Bemerkungen
begleitet. Von Aug. Jak. Rambach. 6 vols. Altona, 1817-33.
The first volume is occupied with the early and Middle Ages of
the Church, especially the Latin Hymns, the texts being given
with translations and notes. It merits the high praise Daniel
gives it: _studia praeclara Rambachii_. S. W. D.
52. M. F. Jack: Psalmen und Gesänge, nebst den Hymnen der ältesten
Kirche, uebersetzt. 2 vols. Freiburg, 1817.
Other German-Catholic translators are George Witzel (1550), a
Mönch of Hildesheim (1776), F. X. Jahn (1785), F. J. Weinzerl
(1817 and 1821), J. Aigner (1825), Casper Ett (1837), A. A.
Hnogek (1837), Deutschmann (1839), R. Lecke (1843), M. A. Nickel
(1845), H. Bone (1847), J. Kehrein (1853), G. M. Pachtler
(1853), H. Stadelmann (1855), a Priest of the diocese of Münster
(1855), J. N. Stoeger (1857), Theodor Tilike (1862), G. M.
Pachtler (1868), P. J. Belke (1869), and Fr. Hohmann (1872).
Silbert, Zabuesnig, Simrock, and Schlosser are given in their
proper places in this list.
53.* G. A. Bjorn: Hymni veterum poetarum Christianorum ecclesiae latinae
selecti. Copenhagen, 1818.
Bjorn was the Lutheran pastor of Vemmetofte, in Denmark. His
selection is confined to the very early writers: Victorinus,
Damasus, Ambrose and his school, Prudentius (the
_Kathemerinon_), and Paulinus of Nola. He has a good
introduction and notes.
54.* Adolf Ludewig Follen: Alte christliche Lieder und Kirchengesänge
teutsch und lateinisch, nebst einem Anhange. Elberfeld, 1819.
Chiefly hymns of the later Middle Ages or by the Jesuits. The
author, who was a brother of Professor Follen of Harvard,
ascribes the _Dies Irae_ to Malabranca, 1278, Bishop of Ostia,
and accepts the _Requiescat a labore_ as a funeral hymn actually
sung by Heloise and her nuns over Abelard.
Other German-Protestant translators, besides those given in this
list at their proper places, are H. Freyberg (1839), Ed. von
Mildenstein (1854), H. von. Loeper (1869), H. F. Müller (1869),
J. Linke (1884), and Jul. Thikotter (1888).
55. J. P. Silbert: Dom heiliger Sanger, oder fromme Gesänge der Vorzeit.
Mit Vorrede von Fr. von Schlegel. Vienna and Prague, 1820.
56. F. J. Weinzerl: Hymni sacri ex pluribus Galliae diocesium Brevariis
collecti. Augsburg, 1820.
57. Poetae ecclesiasticae Latini. 4 vols., in 12mo. Cambray, 1821-26.
Embraces Fortunatus, Prudentius, Cherius, Tertullian, Cyprian,
Juvencus, Sedulius, Belisarius, Liberius, Prosper, Arator,
Lactantius, and Dracontius.
58.* Johann Christoph von Zabuesnig: Katholische Kirchengesänge in das
Deutsche übertragen mit dem Latein zur Seite. 3 vols. Augsburg,
1822.
A second edition, with a Preface by Carl Egger, Augsburg, 1830.
The collection is a large one, made from fourteen breviaries,
three missals, and other church-books and private collections,
besides one manuscript antiphonary. Although a Catholic priest,
Zabuesnig selects (from Christopher Corner, 1573) and translates
hymns by Melanchthon and Camerarius.
59_a_. Gottl. Ch. Fr. Mohnike: Kirchen- und Literar-historische Studien
und Mittheilungen. Stralsund, 1824.
59_b_. Gottl. Chr. Fr. Mohnike: Hymnologische Forschungen. 2 vols.
Stralsund, 1831-32.
60.* Ludwig Buchegger: De Origine sacrae Christianorum Poeseos
Commentatio. Freiburg, 1827.
61.* Sir Alexander Croke: An Essay on the Origin, Progress, and Decline
of Rhyming Latin Verse; with many Specimens. Oxford, 1828.
62.* Jakob Grimm: Hymnorum veteris Ecclesiae XXVI Interpretatio
Theotisca nunc primum edita. 4to, pp. 1830.
Grimm’s “Habilitationsschrift” on entering on his professorship
at Göttingen. It is from the manuscript presented in the
seventeenth century by Francis Junius to the University of
Oxford, which contains twenty-six hymns by Ambrose and his
school, with a prose version in Old High German of the eighth or
ninth century. Four of the hymns had never appeared in any
previous collection.
63_a_. Rev. Isaac Williams: Thoughts in Past Years. London, 1831. A
sixth edition in 1832.
Contains twelve versions of Ambrosian and other primitive hymns.
63.* Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes
bis auf Luther’s Zeit. Hannover, 1832. Second edition, 1854; third
edition, *1861.
Shows the transition from Latin to German in popular use, and
discusses the history of forty-five Latin hymns in this
connection.
64. F. Martin: Specimens of Ancient Hymns of the Western Church,
transcribed from an MS. in the University Library of Cambridge, with
Appendix of other Ancient Hymns. Pp. 36, octavo. Norwich, 1835.
Privately printed in fifty-six copies.
65.* J. C. F. Bähr: Die Christlichen Dichter und Geschichtschreiber
Roms. Eine literärhistorische Uebersicht. Carlsruhe, 1836. New
edition, 1872.
66_a_.* Rev. John Chandler: The Hymns of the Primitive Church, now first
collected, translated, and arranged. London, 1837.
Contains 108 Latin hymns with Chandler’s translation, several of
which were adopted by the editors of _Hymns Ancient and Modern_.
Mr. Chandler died, July 1st, 1876.
66_b_.* Bishop Richard Mant: Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary.
London, 1837. New edition, 1871 (272 pages).
Dr. Mant was Bishop of Down and Connor in the Irish Established
Church, and died November 2d, 1848. He was an original Latin
poet of some note, and a writer of English hymns.
67.* (J. H. Newman:) Hymni Ecclesiae. Pars I., e Breviario Parisiensi;
Pars II., e Breviariis Romano, Sarisburiensi, Eboracensi et aliunde.
Oxford, 1838.
A new edition, London, 1865.
This collection, sometimes known as the Oxford Hymns, was
prepared by Cardinal Newman while he was still a presbyter of
the Anglican Church, and exhibits everywhere his cultivated
taste. Many of the hymns it includes are not to be found in
other collections. This is especially true of the hymns from the
Paris Breviary of 1736, which make up half the book. S. W. D.
68.* Rev. Isaac Williams: Hymns translated from the Paris Breviary.
London, 1839.
These translations had already appeared in _The British
Magazine_ about 1830. Mr. Williams takes rank next after Keble
among the poets of the Tractarian movement. He died in 1865.
69.* Ioseph Kehrein: Lateinische Anthologie aus den christlichen
Dichtern des Mittelalters. Für Gymnasien und Lyceen herausgegeben
und mit Anmerkungen begleitet. Erster Theil. Die acht ersten
christlichen Jahrhunderte. Frankfurt a. M., 1840.
An anthology prepared with great labor and small judgment by a
prosaic scholar. S. W. D.
70_a_.* Friedrich Gustav Lisco: Dies Irae, Hymnus auf das Weltgericht.
Als Beitrag zur Hymnologie. Pp. 156. Great 4to. Berlin, 1840.
70_b_. Friedrich Gustav Lisco: Stabat Mater. Hymnus auf die Schmerzen
Mariä. Nebst einem Nachtrage zu den Uebersetzungen des Hymnus Dies
Irae. Zweiter Beitrag zur Hymnologie. Great 4to. Pp. 58. Berlin,
1843.
71.* (Professor Henry Mills:) The Hymn of Hildebert, and the Ode of
Xavier, with English Versions. Auburn, 1840.
72.* Hermann Adalbert Daniel: Hymnologischer Blüthenstrauss aus dem
Gebiete alt-lateinischer Kirchenpoesie. 12mo. Halle, 1840.
Professor Daniel’s first appearance in a field in which he still
is the highest authority. Besides his Thesaurus and this little
precursor to it, and the dissertation mentioned below, he
labored in German hymnology, editing an _Evangelisches
Kirchen-Gesangbuch_ in 1842, and Zinzendorf’s hymns in 1851. He
also took part in the preparation of the standard German
hymn-book of the Eisenach Conference, which is intended to put
an end to the unlimited variety of hymn-books in the local
churches of Germany. For Ersch and Gruber’s huge _Encyclopädie_,
he wrote the article “Gesangbuch,” which is reprinted in his
_Zerstreute Blätter_ (Halle, 1840). And besides all this he
published in 1847-53 a _Codex Liturgicus Ecclesiae Universae_,
and was a leading authority in Pedagogics and in Geography.
73.* Ferdinand Wolf: Ueber die Lais, Sequenzen und Leiche. Ein Beitrag
zur Geschichte der Rhythmischen Formen und Singweisen der
Volkslieder und der Volksmässigen Kirchen- und Kunstlieder im
Mittelalter. Mit VIII Facsimiles und IX Musikbeilagen. Heidelberg,
1841.
74.* Hermann Adalbert Daniel: Thesaurus Hymnologicus sive hymnorum
canticorum sequentiarum circa annum MD usitatarum collectio
amplissima. Carmina collegit, apparatu critico ornavit, veterum
interpretum notas selectas suasque adiecit. V Tomi. Leipzig,
1841-56.
Still the chief text-book for the student of Latin hymnology.
Vols. I. (1841) and IV. (1855) contain the Hymns. Vols. II.
(1844) and V. (1856), the Sequences. Vol. III. (1846), Hymns of
the Greek and Syrian Churches. To Vol. V. Dr. Neale contributes
a Latin introduction on the nature of the Sequence.
In the two last volumes Daniel uses freely and with
acknowledgment the labors especially of Mone and Neale. The
fifth volume contains also indices to all five volumes by first
lines, and also a topical index. The worst defect of the book is
the poorness of this latter. Next to that is its author’s very
insufficient preparation for his work when he published his two
first volumes; but that probably was unavoidable. Vols. IV. and
V. show how much he had grown in his mastery of his field of
labor. But his learning and his care give his book a place
inferior to none.
75.* K. E. P. Wackernagel: Das Deutsche Kirchenlied von Martin Luther
bis auf Nicolaus Herman und Ambrosius Blaurer. Stuttgart, 1841.
Wackernagel’s first and shorter work. Recognizing in the Latin
hymns the starting-point of German hymnology, he begins his book
with thirty-seven pages of Latin hymns and sequences, taken
mostly from Lossius and Rambach, with some from the _Hymni et
Collectae_ of 1585.
75_b_. A. D. Wackerbarth: Lyra Ecclesiastica: a Collection of Ancient
and Godly Latin Hymns, with an English Translation. Two series.
London, 1842-43.
76_a_.* Edélestand du Meril: Poesies populaires latines anterieures au
douzième siècle. Paris, 1843.
This book, like the similar work of Thomas Aldis Wright,
contains the popular Latin poetry of the Middle Ages previous to
the twelfth century. But it also contains the first part of the
hymns of Abelard, and it is from this volume that Trench and
March took their examples of his poetry. The later discovery of
the entire hymnarium prepared for the Abbey of the Paraclete
emphasizes the importance of De Meril’s researches. S. W. D.
76_b_. Edélestand du Meril: Poesies populaires latines du Moyen Age.
Paris, 1847.
A continuation of his first work of 1843. Both are used freely
by Daniel in his later volumes and by Mone.
77.* Jacques Paul Migne: Patrologiae Cursus Completus, sive Bibliotheca
Universalis, Integra, Uniformis, Commoda, Oeconomica omnium Patrum,
Doctorum Scriptorumque Ecclesiasticorum qui ab Aevo Apostolico ad
Innocentii III Tempora floruerunt. CCXXI Tomi Paris, 1844-55. New
edition begun in 1878.
For the Christian Poets, see the following volumes: Abelard,
168; Adam of St. Victor, 196; Alan of Lisle, 210; Ambrose, 16
and 17; Anselm of Canterbury, 158; Bede, 94; Bernard of
Clairvaux, 184; Damasus, 13; Drepanius Florus, 61; Elpis, 63;
Ennodius, 63; Eugenius, 87; Florus, 110: Venantius Fortunatus,
88; Fulbert, 141; Godeschalk, 141; Gregory the Great, ——; the
Emperor Henry, 140; Heribert of Eichstetten, 141; Hilary, 10;
Hildebert, 171; Hincmar, 125; Innocent III., 217; Isidore, 83;
John Scotus Erigena, 122; Juvencus, 19; Claudianus Mamertus, 53;
Marbod, 171; Notker, 131; Odo of Cluny, 142; Paulinus of Nola,
61; Peter Damiani, 145; Peter of Cluny, 189; Prudentius, 59;
Rabanus Maurus, 112; Robert II, 141; Ratpert of St. Gall, 87;
Coelius Sedulius, 19; Walafried Strabo, 114; Tutilo of St. Gall,
87; Paul Warnefried, 95.
Anonymous poems as follows: IId and IIId centuries, 2; IVth
century, 7; Vth century, 61; VIIth century, 87; IXth century,
98; XIth century, 151; XIIth century, 190.
78.* C. Fortlage: Gesänge Christl. Vorzeit. Auswahl der vorzüglichsten
aus den Griechischen und Lateinischen übersetzt. Berlin, 1844.
78_a_.* (John Williams): Ancient Hymns of Holy Church. Pp. 128, 12mo.
Hartford, 1845.
Contains original translations of forty Latin hymns, mostly
Ambrosian and other early hymns in the abbreviated versions of
the Roman Breviary. Twenty-two of Isaac Williams’s translations
of hymns from the Paris Breviary are appended. The author was at
the time rector of St. George’s church in Schenectady, and in
1851 became bishop of Connecticut.
79.* K. I. Simrock: Lauda Syon, altchristliche Kirchenlieder und
geistliche Gedichte, lateinisch und deutsch. Köln, 1846.
A second edition in 1868. One of the most eminent Germanists,
and an extremely felicitous translator (1802-76).
80.* G. A. Königsfeld: Lateinische Hymnen und Gesänge aus dem
Mittelalter, deutsch, unter Beibehaltung der Versmasse. Nebst
Einleitung und Anmerkungen; unter brieflicher Bemerkungen und
Uebersetzungen von A. W. Schlegel. Bonn, 1847.
An admirably done piece of work. Specimens from twenty-five
authors, with twenty anonymous hymns chiefly of the Jesuit
school. A second series in 1865.
81.* Richard Chenevix Trench: Sacred Latin Poetry. London, 1849. Second
edition, 1864; third edition, 1878.
Archbishop Trench’s little book has had a wide popularity, and
many persons have been induced by it to take a deeper interest
in the subject. But it is disfigured by its arrangement, which
excludes everything that cannot be safely employed by
Protestants. Lines are omitted from Hildebert; the _Stabat
Mater_ of Jacoponus is absent, and the _Pange lingua_ of Aquinas
is also missing. Moreover the notes, which have been easily
prepared from Latin sources, are scarcely satisfactory. Yet,
take it for all in all, it is a volume that may be highly
commended, for the archbishop is a poet, and has a poet’s
appreciation of the beautiful. We are indebted to him for hymns
from Marbod, Mauburn, W. Alard, Balde, Pistor, and Alan of
Lisle, which are not readily found. S. W. D.
There is much in the recent biography of Archbishop Trench which
is of interest to hymnologists, especially his correspondence
with Dr. Neale.
82_a_.* Edward Caswall: Lyra Catholica: containing all the Hymns of the
Roman Breviary and Missal, with others from various Sources. London,
1849; New York, 1851. New edition, London, 1884.
Mr. Caswall was one of the clergymen who left the Church of
England for the Roman communion with Dr. Newman. Some of his
translations, especially of Bernard of Clairvaux, are among the
most felicitous in the language. The American edition has an
Appendix of “Hymns, Anthems, etc., appropriate to particular
occasions of devotion.” It is this edition which has been
abridged in the first volume of the _Hymns of the Ages_ (1858).
82_b_. J. R. Beste: Church Hymns in English, that may be sung to the old
church music. With approbation. London, 1849.
83.* D. Ozanam: Documents inedits pour servir a l’Histoire litteraire de
l’Italie depuis le VIIIe Siecle jusq’au XIIIe. Paris, 1850.
Pages 221-57 is an account of a collection of two hundred and
forty-three Latin hymns found in a Vatican manuscript, which he
assigns to the ninth century, and to the Benedictines of Central
Italy. He prints those not found in Daniel. Reprinted in Migne’s
_Patrologia_: 151; 813ff.
84. Hymnale secundum Usum insignis et praeclarae Ecclesiae
Sarisburiensis. Littlemore, 1850.
85.* Hymnarium Sarisburense, cum Rubricis et Notis Musicis. Variae
inseruntur lectiones Codicum MSS. Anglicorum, cum iis quae a Geo.
Cassandro, J. Clichtoveo, J. M. Thomasio, H. A. Daniel, e Codd.
Germanis, Gallicis, Italis, erutae sunt. Accedunt etiam Hymni et
Rubricae e Libris secundum usus Ecclesiarum Cantuariensis,
Eboracensis, Wigornensis, Herefordensis, Gloucestrensis, aliisque
Codd. MSS. Anglicanis excerpti. Pars prima. London and Cambridge,
1851.
Gives hymns and various readings from twenty-six English
manuscripts.
86.* Joseph Stevenson: Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church; with an
Interlinear Anglo-Saxon Gloss, from a Manuscript of the Eleventh
Century in Durham Library. Edited for the Surtees Society. London
and Durham, 1851.
Of some value as showing what hymns were used in the early
English Church, before the Norman Conquest. The gloss is not
Northumbrian, as might be supposed from its being found in the
Library of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, but West-Saxon,
probably from Winchester.
86_b_. Boetticher: Hymns of the old Catholic Church of England. Halle,
1851.
87.* Joh. F. H. Schlosser: Die Kirche in ihren Liedern durch all
Jahrhunderte. 2 vols. Mainz, 1851-52. Second edition. Freiburg,
1863.
Translations without texts, but some valuable notes, especially
to later hymns. The first volume is devoted to the Latin hymns,
and contains the beautiful fragment of a lost sequence which
Schlosser heard from his brother in 1812. It represents the
Apostle Paul weeping over the grave of Virgil at Puteoli:
Ad Maronis mausoleum
Ductus, fudit super eum
Piae rorem lachrymae:
Quantum, inquit, te fecissem,
Vivum si te invenissem,
Poetarum maxime.
Dean Stanley has translated it.
88_a_.* J. M. Neale: Hymni Ecclesiae e Brevariis et Missalibus
Gallicanis, Germanis, Hispanis, Lusitanis, desumpti. Oxford, 1850.
88_b_.* J. M. Neale: Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences, translated into
English. London, 1851. A second edition in 1863.
88_c_.* J. M. Neale: Sequentiae ex Missalibus Germanicis, Anglicis,
Gallicis, aliisque Mediaei Aevi collectae. London, 1852.
88_d_.* J. M. Neale and Thos. Helmore: A Hymnal Noted; or Translations
of the Ancient Hymns of the Church set to their proper Melodies.
London, 1852.
These four volumes are the first of Dr. Neale’s; but in the
pages of the _Ecclesiologist_, both before and after this, he
was collecting and publishing unnoticed sequences from English
and Continental sources.
89.* Card. Angelo Mai: Nova Patrum Bibliotheca. 6 vols. Rome, 1852-53.
Vol. I. (Part II, pp. 199 et seq.) contains unpublished hymns
supplementary to Thomasius.
90.* F. J. Mone: Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, aus Handschriften
herausgegeben und erklärt. In Drei Bände: I, Gott und die Engel; II,
Marienlieder; III, Heiligenlieder. 3 Vols. Freiburg, 1853.
Mone’s book appeared while Daniel’s Thesaurus was in process of
publication. The value of it is in its arrangement, for it
groups the hymns, “To God and the Angels,” “To Mary,” and “To
the Saints,” in three separate volumes, and with some regard to
dates. It also furnishes many hymns and sequences never
previously published. It is deficient in taste, and very Roman
Catholic in its ideas. Several of the best known hymns—for
example, the _Dies Irae_—are not found in it. Daniel 5:5 gives
in a footnote a list of these delinquencies, embracing sixty of
the most ancient and celebrated hymns and sequences. Aside from
this, Mone is a careful and admirable editor. His pages are well
printed, and the notes are in German instead of Latin. Mone was
“Director of Archives” at Carlsruhe, and died March 12th, 1871.
S. W. D.
91.* Cl. Frantz: Geschichte der geistlichen Liedertexte vor der
Reformation mit besonderer Beziehung auf Deutschland. Halberstadt,
1853.
92.* Felix Clément: Carmina e Poetis Christianis excerpta. Parisiis
(Gaume Fratres), 1854. 564 pp.
Latin texts from the fourth to the fourteenth century, with
French notes.
93.* Kauffer: Jesus Hymnen. Sammlung altkirchlicher lateinischer Gesänge
mit freier deutscher Uebersetzung. Leipzig, 1854.
Small, but good. The selections are admirable. S. W. D.
94.* H. N. Oxenham: The Sentence of Kaires, and other Poems. London,
1854.
Contains important translations, as does the following:
95. W. J. Blew: A Church Hymn and Tune Book. London, Rivingtons, 1855.
96.* J. H. Todd: Leabhar Imnuihn. The Book of Hymns of the Ancient
Church of Ireland. Edited from the original Manuscript in the
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with Translation and Notes.
Dublin (Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society), 1855 and 1869.
97.* John David Chambers (Recorder of New Sarum): Lauda Syon: Ancient
Latin Hymns of the English and other Churches, translated into
corresponding metres. II. Parts. London, 1857. New edition, 1866.
97_a_.* Earl Nelson and others: The Salisbury Hymn-Book. London, 1857.
98.* A. F. C. Vilmar: Spicilegium Hymnologicum, continens I, Hymnos
veteres ineditos et editorum lectionis varietatem; II, Hymnorum
veterum qui apud Evangelicos in Linguam Germanicam versi usu
venerunt Delectum. Marburg, 1857.
99.* (Mrs. E. R. Charles:) The Voice of the Christian Life in Song; or
Hymns and Hymn-Writers of Many Lands and Ages. London, 1858; New
York, 1859.
Very interesting—and not always accurate. There are no Latin
texts. Several of the translations are excellent. Six of the
fourteen chapters are given to the Latin hymns. S. W. D.
100.* Ferd. Bässler: Auswahl altchristlicher Lieder vom 2-15sten Jahrh.
Berlin, 1858.
Well chosen and good. S. W. D.
101. Ans. Schubiger: Die Sängerschule St. Gallens vom achten bis
zwölften Jahrhundert. Ein Beitrag zur Gesanggeschichte des
Mittelalters. Mil vielen Facsimile und Beispielen. Einsiedeln und
New York, 1858.
Sixty texts with the old music and fac-similes.
102. Gautier: Oeuvres poetiques de Adam de St. Victor. Paris, 1858-59.
103.* John Mason Neale: The Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix, Monk of Cluny,
on the Celestial Country. London, 1858. Sixth edition, 1866.
The translation is reprinted by Judge Mott, and by Schaff and
Gilman in the _Library of Religious Poetry_.
104.* Ebenezer Thomson: A Vindication of the Hymn Te Deum Laudamus from
Errors and Misrepresentations of a Thousand Years. With Translations
into various Languages, ancient and modern. And a Paraphrase in Old
English, now first printed from the original MS. London, 1858.
105.* Frederick Wilson: Sacred Hymns; chiefly from Ancient Sources.
Arranged according to the Seasons of the Church. Philadelphia, 1859.
106.* Dies Irae in Thirteen Original Versions by Abraham Coles, M.D.,
Ph.D. New York, 1859. Fourth edition, 1866.
Dr. Coles is a practising physician of Newark, N. J., who has
translated the _Dies Irae_ some sixteen or seventeen times, and
has also given versions of the _Stabat Mater_, the _Rhythm_ of
Bernard of Cluny, and other hymns. The merit of these
translations is slight; but one of the renderings of the _Dies
Irae_ was introduced into the _Plymouth Collection of Hymns and
Tunes_, and two stanzas gained currency through Mrs. Stowe’s
novel of _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_. Dr. Coles has also compared the
Mantuan and Roman texts of the _Dies Irae_, and has given the
results of his investigation. His book has passed through four
or five editions. S. W. D.
107.* (John William Hewett:) Verses. By a Country Curate.
Ashby-de-la-Zouche and London, 1859.
108.* Rev. Sir Henry W. Baker and others: Hymns Ancient and Modern for
use in the Services of the Church. London, Novello (1861).
New edition in 1868, with an Appendix, which increased the
number of hymns from two hundred and seventy-three to three
hundred and eighty-six. Revised and enlarged edition in 1874. An
edition annotated by Rev. L. C. Biggs in 1867.* See No. 132.
109.* (C. B. Moll:) Hymnarium. Blüthen lateinischer Kirchenpoesie.
Halle, 1861.
An improved edition, with biographical notices of the authors,
in 1868.*
110_a_. Eucharistic Hymns: now first translated. Edited by a Committee
of Clergy. London, 1862.
110_b_. Prayers and Meditations on the Passion. Edited by a Committee of
Clergy. London, 1862.
Contain translations of Latin hymns by L.
111. H. Trend: A Hymnal for Use in the Services of the Church of
England. London, Rivington, 1862.
Translations from the Latin by Dr. Trend and Mr. I. C. Smith.
112. Herbert Kynaston: Occasional Hymns. London, 1862.
113_a_. The Divine Liturgy. Edited by the Rev. Orby Shipley. London,
Masters, 1863.
113_b_.* Lyra Eucharistica: Hymns and Verses on the Holy Communion,
Ancient and Modern; with other Poems. Edited by the Rev. Orby
Shipley. London, 1863.
113_c_.* Lyra Messianica: Hymns and Verses on the Life of Christ,
Ancient and Modern; with other Poems. Edited by the Rev. Orby
Shipley. London, 1864.
A second edition, revised and enlarged, in 1865.*
113_d_.* Lyra Mystica: Hymns and Verses on Sacred Subjects, Ancient and
Modern. Edited by the Rev. Orby Shipley. London, 1869.
These four books, compiled while Mr. Shipley was still a
clergyman of the English Church, contain many original
translations, besides selections from other authors. Some are
excellent, but many are mediocre. S. W. D.
114. P. S. Worsley: Poems and Translations. Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1863.
115.* Philipp Wackernagel: _Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten
Zeit bis zu Anfang des siebenzehnten Jahrhunderts_. 5 vols. Leipzig,
1864-77.
This is the greatest work except Koch’s (which is more recent)
upon German hymns. In the first volume, which contains Latin
hymns only, we find many originals, and some texts which have
been printed from MSS. sources. Hymns by Protestants are
included. The order is chronological. The notes are extremely
valuable. S. W. D.
116.* Edward Hobein: Buch der Hymnen. Aeltere Kirchenlieder, aus dem
Lateinischen übertragen. Schwerin, 1864.
The Latin text (sixty-seven hymns) at the foot of the page. The
order is chronological. A second edition in 1870.
117.* G. A. Königsfeld: Lateinische Hymnen und Gesänge aus dem
Mittelalter. Bonn, 1865.
This, with the selection of 1847, contitutes a most admirable
anthology of texts translated into German verse, and with notes
and brief biographies. Königsfeld is substantially accurate, but
he does not attempt anything very deep or original. The second
volume contains a commendatory letter from the Emperor of
Germany. S. W. D.
118_a_.* Abraham Coles: Stabat Mater: Hymn of the Sorrows of Mary,
translated. New York, 1865.
118_b_.* Abraham Coles: Old Gems in new Settings, comprising the
choicest of the Mediaeval Hymns, with original Translations. New
York, 1866.
Contains Dr. Trench’s cento from Bernard of Cluny, the _Veni,
sancte Spiritus_, the _Veni, Creator Spiritus_, the _Apparebit
repentina_, and the _Cur Mundus militat_, with versions. These
two books and the author’s versions of the _Dies Irae_ appeared
in one volume in New York, 1867.
119.* Seven Great Hymns of the Mediaeval Church. New York, 1865.
This collection, made by Judge Noyes, includes Dr. Neale’s
translation from Bernard of Cluny, English versions of the _Dies
Irae_, the _Mater Speciosa_, the _Stabat Mater_, the _Veni
Sancte_, the _Veni Creator_, and the _Vexilla Regis_. The
originals are given. The book, though quite small, has been
extremely popular, and there have been some seven editions. S.
W. D.
120_a_. Th. J. Michael: Dissertatiuncula de Hymno “Te Deum laudamus,”
praemissis paucis de Poeseos hymnicae veteris Historiâ. Zittau,
1865.
120_b_.* Th. J. Michael: Dissertatio de Sequentia Mediae Aetatis “Dies
Irae, Dies Illa.” Quarto. Zittau, 1866.
121.* Songs of Praise and Poems of Devotion in the Christian Centuries.
With an introduction by Henry Coppée, Professor of English
Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, E. H.
Butler & Co., 1866.
Notable for translations made by the late Rev. E. A. Washburn,
D. D., an accomplished and elegant scholar, whose versions are
among the best. S. W. D.
122.* John Mason Neale: Hymns on the Glories and Joys of Paradise.
Translated or edited. London, 1865. Second edition, 1866.
123.* H. N. Schletterer: Uebersichtliche Darstellung der Geschichte der
kirchlichen Dichtung und geistlichen Musik. Nördlingen, 1866.
124. J. Kayser: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung der Kirchenhymnen.
Drei Hefte. Paderborn, 1866-69.
125.* Ed. Emil Koch: Geschichte des Kirchenlieds und Kirchengesangs der
christlichen, inbesonders der deutschen evangelischen Kirche. Third
edition. 8 vols. Stuttgart, 1866-69.
It is in this last edition that Koch gives considerable space to
the Latin hymns, which got about fifty pages in his second
edition, in 4 volumes, 1852-53.
126.* Samuel W. Duffield: The Heavenly Land, from the De Contemptu Mundi
of Bernard de Morlaix, monk of Cluny (XIIth century), rendered into
corresponding English verse. New York, 1867.
This was the first attempt to render the cento prepared by
Trench into the rhythm of the original.
127.* Erastus C. Benedict: The Hymn of Hildebert and other Mediaeval
Hymns, with Translations. New York, 1867.
Chancellor Benedict (_ob._ 1878) was a judge in New York,
equally respected for his attainments as a jurist and his
character as a man and a Christian. This volume contains
seventeen hymns, with translations, including three of the _Dies
Irae_. He contributed many others to the columns of the
_Christian Intelligencer_, including a translation of the long
hymn, or rather series of hymns, on the Epiphany by Prudentius.
128.* Hermann Adalbert Daniel: Die Kirchweih-Hymnen Christe cunctorum
Dominator alme. Urbs beata Hirusalem. Pp. 24, great quarto. Halle,
1867.
A defence of his view that the former hymn was not written for a
church dedication, but had been converted to that use by adding
three verses. It is in reply to a dissertation by Professor Hugo
Lämmer, who had published a dissertation: _Coelestis Urbs
Ierusalem: Aphorismen nebst Beilage_. Breslau, 1866.
129.* _P. Gall Morel: Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters,
grösstentheils aus Handschriften Schweizerischer Klöster, als
Nachtrag zu Hymnensammlungen von Mone, Daniel und Andern
herausgegeben.—Einsiedeln, New York und Cincinnati, Benzigers_,
1868.
Based on an examination of one hundred and thirty-six
manuscripts, chiefly from Rheinau, Einsiedeln, and Engelberg.
Edited in the style of Mone, who indeed suggested the work, but
without annotations of any extent.
129_b_. P. Baur: Cantiones selectae ex vetere Psalteriola Rev. Patrum
Societatis Jesu, cum Modis musicis. Aachen, 1868.
129_c_. J. Pauly: Hymni Breviarii Romani. Zum gebrauche für Kleriker
übersetzt und erklärt. 3 parts. Aachen, 1868-70.
130.* T. G. Crippen: Ancient Hymns and Poems. Chiefly from the Latin.
Translated and Imitated. London, 1868.
131. Karl Bartsch: Die lateinische Sequenzen des Mittelalters in
musicalischer und rhythmischer Beziehung dargestellt. Rostock, 1868.
Karl Friedrich Bartsch was a philologist equally eminent in the
Germanic and the Romance fields, and was professor at Rostock.
He died in 1888.
132.* Rev. Sir Henry Baker and others: Hymns Ancient and Modern, for use
in the Services of the Church; with Annotations, Originals,
References, Authors’ and Translators’ Names, etc. Re-edited by Rev.
Louis Coutier Biggs. London, 1868.
133.* A. Thierfelder: De Christianorum Psalmis et Hymnis usque ad
Ambrosii Tempora. Leipzig, 1868.
134.* Philip Schaff: ΙΧΘΥΣ, Christ in Song. Hymns of Immanuel. Selected
from all Ages, with Notes. New York, 1869.
Contains translations of seventy-three Latin hymns by various
authors, some of them by the editor.
135.* H. M. Schletterer: Geschichte der geistlichen Dichtung und
kirchlichen Tonkunst vom Beginne des Christenthums bis zum Anfange
des elften Jahrhunderts. Mit einer Einleitung über die Poesie und
Musik der alten Völker. Hannover, 1869.
Meant to be the first part of a history coming down to our own
times, but not continued. The author was a musician by
profession—_Kapellmeister_ at Augsburg—so his interest is
chiefly in the musical history. But he gives a good deal of
information about the hymns and their writers, and appends
translations of one hundred and twenty-seven by various German
authors.
136.* J. Keble: Miscellaneous Poems. London and New York, 1869.
137.* Lateinische Hymnen aus angeblichen Liturgien des Tempelordens.
Kritisch und exegetisch bearbeitet von Dr. Hermann Hoefig. Parchim,
1870.
A curiosity. The eleven hymns are partly church hymns, adapted
to the alchemico-mystical ideas which pervaded the order of the
Templars in its last years, and partly lamentations over the
fall of Jerusalem and other calamities of the kingdom of
Jerusalem.
138.* David T. Morgan: Hymns of the Latin Church. Translated; with the
originals appended. Privately printed (London), 1871.
My own copy was presented by the author in autograph to James
Appleton Morgan, and bears the latter’s book-plate. The range of
selections is moderate; the execution of the versions is fair,
and the text is well edited. There are numerous corrections and
improvements made in the author’s handwriting. S. W. D.
139.* Charles Buchanan Pearson: Sequences from the Sarum Missal. London,
1871.
In the preface is a good description of the Sequence and its
origin. The book is useful and well edited. S. W. D.
140. Cl. Brockhaus: Aurelius Prudentius Clemens in seiner Bedeutung für
die Kirche seiner Zeit. Nebst Uebersetzung des Gedichtes
_Apotheosis_. Leipzig, 1872.
141.* W. H. Odenheimer and Fred. M. Bird: Songs of the Spirit. New York,
1871.
Twenty-three translations of Latin hymns, with a much larger
number of English.
142.* Joseph Kehrein: _Lateinische Sequenzen des Mittelalters aus
Handschriften und Drucken.—Mainz_, 1873.
This latest collection of the original texts of the hymns is
prepared by one of the most patient and laborious of scholars.
But there is scarcely to be found in it a single spark of the
divine fire. It is filled, on the contrary, with the scoriae and
ashes of monastic illiteracy. It contains eight hundred and
ninety-five hymns—few of which are familiar and many of which
are strictly unnecessary. The classification and especially the
glossary of mediaeval Latin words can be highly commended. It is
confined to “sequences,” but this word is used in so loose a
sense as to include many regularly formed hymns along with the
rhythmical proses. S. W. D.
143.* Edward Caswall: Hymns and Poems, Original and Translated. Second
edition, 1873.
144. S. G. Pimont: Les Hymnes du Brévaire romaine. Études critiques,
littéraires et mystiques. III. Tomes. Paris, 1874-84.
145.* Ad. Ebert: Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur des Mittelalters im
Abendlande. 3 vols. Leipzig, 1874-87.
See especially the third book of Vol. I.; and Vol. II., which
embraces the age of Charles the Great and his successors. S. W.
D.
146.* F. A. March: Latin Hymns, with English Notes. For use in schools
and colleges. New York, 1875 and 1883.
This is the first volume of the “Douglass Series of Christian
Classics for Schools and Colleges.” Professor March’s text is
carefully edited; his selections are wisely made, and his notes
are judicious. This is the cheapest, fullest, and best work, if
the Latin texts are desired. It contains no translations, and it
so far mistakes its scope and purpose as to give space to Mr.
Gladstone’s version of _Rock of Ages_, and Philip Buttmann’s
rendering of Luther’s _Ein’ feste Burg_. S. W. D.
147. J. Hümer: Untersuchungen über den iambischen Dimeter bei den
christlichen-lateinischen Hymnendichtern. Vienna, 1876.
148.* (Rich. F. Littledale:) The People’s Hymnal. London, 1877.
149.* Lyra Sacra Hibernica, compiled and edited by Rev. W. MacIlwaine,
D.D. Belfast (1878). Second edition, 1879.
An unusually poetic and capital volume. It embraces several
translations of early hymns, and contains the Latin of the Hymn
of Columba, the _Lorica_ S. Patricii in a Latin version, the
_Sancti Venite_, and the Hymn of Sedulius. S. W. D.
150.* Frank Foxcroft: Resurgit: A Collection of Hymns and Songs of the
Resurrection. Edited with Notes. With an Introduction by Andrew
Preston Peabody, D.D. Boston and New York, 1879.
151. J. Hümer: Untersuchungen über die ältesten lateinischen
christlichen Rhythmen. Vienna, 1879.
152_a_. E. Dummler: Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini. Berlin, 1880-84. 2
vols.
Contains also hymns. II., p. 244-58.
152_b_. E. Dummler: Rythmorum Ecclesiasticorum Aevi Carolini Specimen.
Berlin, 1881.
153.* Philip Schaff and Arthur Gilman: A Library of Religious Poetry. A
Collection of the best Poems of all Ages and all Tongues. With
Illustrations. Pp. 1036, lexicon octavo. New York, 1880.
Contains many of the finest translations of the Latin hymns.
154.* Digby S. Wrangham: The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor. 3
vols. London, 1881.
Mr. Wrangham has compiled—principally from Gautier—the various
poems attributed to this author. He has given translation and
text upon opposite pages, but adds nothing to our knowledge by
any special scholarship. S. W. D.
155.* Joh. Kayser: Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung der Ältesten
Kirchenhymnen. Second edition. Paderborn, 1881 (477 pp.).
This is the latest German contribution to the criticism of the
earliest hymns. It is a series of monographs on these and their
authors. It comes down only to the sixth century, and closes
with Fortunatus. See also his article, “Der Text des Hymnus
_Stabat Mater Dolorosa_,” in the Tübingen _Theologische
Quartalschrift_ for 1884, No. I., pp. 85-103. S. W. D.
156.* (N. B. Smithers:) Translations of eight Latin Hymns of the Middle
Ages. Dover, Del., 1881.
157.* Josef Sittard: Compendium der Geschichte der Kirchenmusik mit
besonderer Berüchsichtigung des kirchlichen Gesanges. Von Ambrosius
zur Neuzeit. Stuttgart, 1881.
157. O. Zardetti: Die kirchliche Sequenz. Freiburg, 1882.
158_a_. J. B. Haureau: Melanges poëtiques d’Hildebert de Lavardin.
Paris, 1882.
158_b_. J. B. Haureau: “Poëmes latines attribues a St. Bernard.” In the
_Journal des Savants_, Febr.-Juli, 1882.
159_a_. “Mediaeval Hymns” in the _Quarterly Review_ for 1882. Reprinted
in Littell’s _Living Age_ of same year.
159_b_. N. MacNeil: “Latin Hymns of the Celtic Church,” in the _Catholic
Presbyterian_ for 1883.
160. Anselm Salzer: Die christliche römische Hymnenpoesie. Brünn, 1883.
161.* (W. W. Newton:) Voices from a busy Life; or Selections from the
Poetical Works of the late Edward A. Washburn, D.D. New York, 1883.
Pp. 122-86: “Ancient Christian Hymns.”
162.* Johannes Linke: Die Hymnen des Hilarius und Ambrosius verdeutscht.
Bielefeld und Leipzig, 1884.
This little volume of 194 pages, 12mo, is intended to be the
first of a series furnishing translations (with the Latin texts
_en regard_) of the hymns of the Early Church. In the preface
Dr. Linke announces his purpose to bring out a new _Thesaurus
Hymnorum_, based on the labors of Daniel, Neale, Mone, and
Morel, and on an examination of about a hundred unused
manuscripts. He regards Wackernagel as the best editor of the
texts, and as characterized by the finest critical instinct in
determining authorship. As he and Wackernagel agree in assigning
the _Ad coeli clara_ to Hilary, there is room for a difference
of opinion.
163.* Annus Sanctus. Hymns of the Church for the Ecclesiastical Year.
Translated from the Sacred Offices by various Authors, with Modern,
Original and other Hymns, and an Appendix of Earlier Versions.
Selected and Arranged by Orby Shipley, M.A. Vol. I. Seasons of the
Church: Canonical Hours: and Hymns of our Lord. Pp. 443, 12mo.
London and New York, 1884.
Important for the translations by English Roman Catholics from
the Reformation to our own times.
164.* The Catholic Hymnal; containing Hymns for Congregational and Home
Use, and the Vesper Psalms, the Office of the Compline, the
Litanies, Hymns at Benediction, etc. The Tunes by the Rev. Alfred
Young, priest of the Congregation of St. Paul. The Words original
and selected. New York Catholic Publication Co., 1884.
165.* The Roman Hymnal. A Complete Manual of English Hymns and Latin
Chants for the Use of Congregations, Schools, Colleges and Choirs.
Compiled and arranged by Rev. J. B. Young, S. J. New York and
Cincinnati, Fr. Pustet & Co., 1884.
166. A. Meiners: Die Tropen, Prosen und Präfationsgesänge des
feierlichen Hochamtes im Mittelalter. Aus drei Handschriften der
Abteien Prüm und Echternach. Luxemburg, 1884.
167. Bonif. Wolff and others: Studien und Mittheilungen aus dem
Benedict.-Orden. Since 1884.
168_a_. Leo XIII: Carmina. Rome, 1885.
168_b_.* Leo XIII: Latin Poems done into English Verse, by the Jesuits
of Woodstock College. Published with the Approbation of his
Holiness. Baltimore, 1886.
169. J. Linke: Specimen hymnologicum de Fontibus Hymnorum Latinorum
Festum Dedicationis Ecclesiae celebrantium. Pp. 24, great 8vo.
Leipzig, 1886.
170. J. Hümer: “Zur Geschichte der mittellateinischen Dichtung” in the
_Romanische Forschungen_ for 1886.
171. P. Ragey: Sancti Anselmi Mariale seu Liber Precum Metricarum ad
beatam Virginem, primum ex manuscriptis codicibus typis manadatum.
London, 1886.
172. Aug. Rösler: Der katholischer Dichter Aurelius Prudentius Clemens.
Ein Beitrag zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte des vierten und
fünften Jahrhunderten. Freiburg, 1886.
173. G. E. Klemming: Hymni, sequentiae et piae cantiones in Regno
Sueciae olim usitatae. Pp. 186, 8vo. Stockholm, 1886.
174. Guido Maria Dreves: Analecta hymnica Medii Aevi. I. Cantiones
Bohemicae: Leiche, Lieder und Rufe des 13., 14., und 15.
Jahrhunderts, nach Handschriften aus Prag, Jistebnicz, Willingau,
Hohenfurt und Tegernsee. II. Hymnarius Moissiacensis: Das Hymnar der
Abtei Moissac im 10. Jahrhundert, nach einer Handschrift der
Rossiana. Im Anhang: (_a_) Carmina scholarium Campensium, (_b_)
Cantiones Vissegradenses. III. Conradus Gemnicensis: Konrads von
Haimburg und seiner Nachamer, Alberts von Prag und Ulrichs von
Wessobrun, Reimgebete und Leselieder. IV. Liturgische Hymnen des
Mittelalters aus handschriftlichen Brevarien, Antiphonalien und
Processionalien. Four volumes. Leipzig, 1886-1888.
175.* Corolla Hymnorum Sacrorum, being a Selection of Latin Hymns of the
Early and Middle Ages. Translated by John Lord Hayes, LL.D. Pp. 211.
Boston, 1887. (With the texts _en regard_.)
176. H. Breidt: De Aurelio Prudentio Clemente Horatii Imitatore.
Heidelberg, 1887.
177. Ad. Meiners: Unbekannte Tropen-gesänge des feierlichen Messamtes im
Mittelalter, nebst einigen Melodien der Kyrientropen. Gesammelt aus
ungefähr fünfzig Handschriften des 10-13ten Jahrhunderten in den
Bibliotheken zu Paris, Brüssel, London, und A. Luxemburg, 1887.
178. N. Gihr: Die Sequenzen des römischen Messbuches dogmatisch und
ascetisch erklärt. Freiburg, 1887.
179.* F. W. E. Roth: Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters. Als Nachtrag
zu den Hymnensammlungen von Daniel, Mone, Vilmar und G. Morel, aus
Handschriften und Incunabeln herausgegeben. Pp. 175, great 8vo.
Augsburg, 1888.
180. J. Linke: “Rundschau auf dem Gebiete der Lateinischen Hymnologie”
in four articles in his and Dr. A. F. W. Fischer’s periodical,
_Blätter für Hymnologie_. Leipzig, 1888.