History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073.

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§ 95. Latin Hymnody. Literature.
See vol. III. 585 sqq. The following list covers the whole mediaeval period of Latin hymnody.
I. Latin Collections.
The Breviaries and Missals. The hymnological collections of Clichtovaeus (Paris 1515, Bas. 1517
and 1519.), Cassander (Col. 1556), Ellinger (Frankf. a. M. 1578), Georg Fabricius (Poetarum
Veterum ecclesiasticorum Opera, Bas. 1564). See the full titles of Breviaries and these older
collections in Daniel, vol. I. XIII-XXII. and vol. II. VIII-XIV.
Cardinal Jos. Maria Thomasius (Tomasi, 1649–1713, one of the chief expounders of the liturgy
and ceremonies of the Roman church): Opera Omnia. Rom. 1741 sqq., 7 vols. The second
volume, p. 351–403, contains the Hymnarium de anni circulo, etc., for which he compared the
oldest Vatican and other Italian MSS. of hymns down to the eighth century. The same vol.
includes the Breviarium Psalterii. The fourth (1749) contains the Responsorialia et antiphonaria
Romanae ecclesia, and the sixth vol. (1751) a collection of Missals. Thomasius is still very
valuable. Daniel calls his book "fons primarius."
Aug. Jak. Rambach (Luth. Pastor in Hamburg, b. 1777, d. 1851): Anthologie christlicher Gesänge
aus alien Jahrh. der christl. Kirche. Altona and Leipzig 1817–1833, 6 vols. The first vol. contains
Latin hymns with German translations and notes. The other volumes contain only German
hymns, especially since the Reformation. Rambach was a pioneer in hymnology.
Job. Kehrein (R.C.): Lat. Anthologie aus den christl. Dichtern des Mittelalters. Frankfurt a. m.



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    [John Henry Newman, Anglican, joined the Rom. Ch. 1845]: Hymni Ecclesiae. Lond. (Macmillan)
    1838; new ed. 1865 (401 pages). Contains only hymns from the Paris, Roman, and Anglican
    Breviaries. The preface to the first part is signed "J. H. N." and dated Febr. 21, 1838, but no
    name appears on the title page. About the same time Card. N. made his translations of Breviary
    hymns, which are noticed below, sub. III.
    H. A. Daniel (Lutheran, d. 1871): Thesaurus Hymnologicus. Lips. 1841–1856, 5 Tomi. The first,
    second, fourth and fifth vols. contain Lat. hymns, the fourth Greek and Syrian h. A rich standard
    collection, but in need of revision
    P. J. Mone (R. Cath. d. 1871): Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters. Freiburg i. B. 1853–’55, 3
    vols. From MSS with notes. Contains in all 1215 hymns divided into three divisions of almost
    equal size; (1) Hymns to God and the angels (461 pages); (2) Hymns to the Virgin Mary, (457
    pages); (3) Hymns to saints (579 pages).
    D. Ozanam: Documents inédits pour servir a l’histoire littéraire de l’Italie. Paris 1850. Contains a
    collection of old Latin hymns, reprinted in Migne’s "Patrol. Lat." vol. 151, fol. 813–824.
    Joseph Stevenson: Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church; with an Interlinear Anglo-Saxon
    Gloss, from a MS. of the eleventh century in Durham Library. 1851 (Surtees Soc.).
    J. M. Neale (Warden of Sackville College, high Anglican, d. 1866): Sequentiae ex Missalibus
    Germanicis, Anglicis, Gallicis, aliisque medii aevi collectae. Lond. 1852. 284 pages. Contains
    125 sequences.
    Felix Clément: Carmina e Poetis Christianis excerpta. Parisiis (Gaume Fratres) 1854. 564 pages.
    The Latin texts of hymns from the 4th to the 14th century, with French notes.
    R. Ch. Trench (Archbishop of Dublin): Sacred Latin Poetry, chiefly Lyrical. Lond. and Cambridge,
    1849; 2d ed. 1864; 3rd ed. revised and improved, 1874. (342 pages). With an instructive
    Introduction and notes.

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