This book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman Conquest. An eleventh-century Latin manuscript known as the Durham Hymnal, with its accompanying Old English interlinear gloss, makes up the core of the edition. An introduction and commentary include descriptions of relevant extant manuscripts and discussions of sources, liturgical use and music, as well as the phonology and vocabulary of the Old English gloss. A translation of the Latin text is provided.
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This book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman Conquest. An eleventh-century Latin manuscript known as the Durham Hymnal, with its accompanying Old English interlinear gloss, makes up the core of the edition. An introduction and commentary include descriptions of relevant extant manuscripts and discussions of sources, liturgical use and music, as well as the phonology and vocabulary of the Old English gloss. A translation of the Latin text is provided.
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Like Christianity itself, hymns were introduced to Anglo-Saxon England from the Continent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hymnal gloss, stanza rhymes aabb, monastic hymnals, seculorum domine, edite laudibus, hymn incipits, monastic canticles, relevant glosses, patri sit gloria, small erasure, pater piissime, cum spiritu paraclito, continental manuscripts, inverted spellings, iambic dimeter, caret mark, syntactical glosses, redemptor omnium, commune sanctorum, hymn verse, beata trinitas, metrical calendar, abbreviation mark, monosyllabic rhyme, sancto spiritu Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Commentary Latin, Late West Saxon, New Hymnal, Anglo-Saxon England, Holy Spirit, Old Hymnal, Christ Church, Holy Ghost, Corpus Christi College, Die Regula Sancti Benedicti, Assumption of Mary, Bosworth Psalter, Frankish Hymnal, The Leofric Collectar, Benedictine Rule, Bodleian Library, Winchester Troper, Early Latin Hymnaries, British Library, Nativity of Mary, Trinity Sunday, Benedictine Reform, Cotton Vespasian, English Caroline Script New!
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Like Christianity itself, hymns were introduced to Anglo-Saxon England from the Continent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hymnal gloss, stanza rhymes aabb, monastic hymnals, seculorum domine, edite laudibus, hymn incipits, monastic canticles, relevant glosses, patri sit gloria, small erasure, pater piissime, cum spiritu paraclito, continental manuscripts, inverted spellings, iambic dimeter, caret mark, syntactical glosses, redemptor omnium, commune sanctorum, hymn verse, beata trinitas, metrical calendar, abbreviation mark, monosyllabic rhyme, sancto spiritu Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Commentary Latin, Late West Saxon, New Hymnal, Anglo-Saxon England, Holy Spirit, Old Hymnal, Christ Church, Holy Ghost, Corpus Christi College, Die Regula Sancti Benedicti, Assumption of Mary, Bosworth Psalter, Frankish Hymnal, The Leofric Collectar, Benedictine Rule, Bodleian Library, Winchester Troper, Early Latin Hymnaries, British Library, Nativity of Mary, Trinity Sunday, Benedictine Reform, Cotton Vespasian, English Caroline Script New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 15 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton on 5 pages
- Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries (Henry Bradshaw Society) by J.B.L. Tolhurst on 5 pages
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Penguin Classics) by Bede on 4 pages
- Old English Syntax (Volume II) by Bruce Mitchell on page 317, page 331, and Back Matter
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 26 by Michael Lapidge in Back Matter
- Medieval England: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages) by Paul E. Szarmach on page 367
- Treasury of Anglo-Saxon England, A by Paul Cavill in Back Matter
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