The following notes may be useful to some readers:—Daniel’s
_Thesaurus Hymnologicus_ (Leipsic, 1841-55); Mone’s _Hymni Latini
Medii Aevi_ (Freiburg, 1853-4-5), Christ’s _Anthologia Graeca
Carminum Christianorum_; Trench’s _Sacred Latin Poetry_ (1849):
Duffield’s _Latin Hymns_ (1889); Macdonald’s _Latin Hymns of the
Wesleyan Methodist Hymn-book_ (1899).
Neale’s _Mediaeval Hymns_, _Hymns of the Eastern Church_, _&c._;
Chandler’s _Hymns of the Primitive Church_; William’s _Hymns from
the Parisian Breviary_ (1839); Chambers’s _Lauda Syon_; Mant’s
_Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary_; Chatfield’s _Songs and
Hymns of the Greek Christian Poets_; Mrs. Charles’s _Christian Life
in Song_; Moorsom’s _Renderings of Church Hymns_. See also articles
in _Dictionary of Hymnology_, on ‘Greek,’ ‘Latin,’ and ‘Syriac,’
‘Hymnody,’ ‘Te Deum,’ &c.
It should be remembered that many of the Breviary hymns are not
ancient, but belong to the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
centuries.
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Early Modern Hymns