Chapter Two

Early Middle Ages: The Old Hymnal

[1.] _Regula Sancti Benedicti_, IX.

[2.] P. Batiffol, _Historie du Breviare romain_, translated by A. M. Y. Bayley (London, 1912), chap. I.

[3.] Dom A. Wilmart, “Le Psautier de la Reine,” (_Cod. Vat. Reg. II_), _Revue Benedictine XXVIII_ (1911) 376 ff.

[4.] Walpole, _Early Latin Hymns_, (ch. 1, note 3), xi-xiv.

[5.] Laodicea, c. 364, Canon 59. See G. D. Mansi, _Sacrorum conciliorum—collectio_ (Florence, Venet. et Par., 1763) ii, 573; Braga, 563, Mansi ix, 778.

[6.] H. F. Muller, “Pre-History of the Medieval Drama,” _Zeitschrift f. romanische Philologie_ 44 (1924) 544-575.

[7.] Tours, 567, Mansi xiv, 803.

[8.] H. Heimbucher, _Die Orden und Kongregationen der katholischen Kirche_, 3 vols. (Paderborn, 1907) vol. I, 224-236, _Ausbreitung der Benediktinerregel_.

[9.] F. H. Dudden, _Gregory the Great_ (London, 1905), 2 vols., II, chap. 8.

[10.] See _A. H._ (_Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi_) 51.24-41, notes. The hymns excepted are nos. 23-30; 34-40; J. Julian, _Dictionary of Hymnology_. _Gregory I., St., Pope_; C. Blume, “Gregor der Grosse als Hymnendichter,” _Stimmen aus Maria-Laach_, 1908, 269 ff.

[11.] H. LeClercq, _L’Espagne chrétienne_ (Paris, 1906) 304-5.

[12.] Migne, _PL_ 80, 642-700, Braulio’s Letters.

[13.] IV Council of Toledo, 633, Canon 2, Mansi x, 616; Canon 13, Mansi x, 622-3. _Sicut igitur orationes, ita et hymnos in laudem Dei compositos, nullus vestrum ulterius improbet, sed pari modo Gallia, Hispaniaque celebret: excommunicatione plectendi, qui hymnos rejicere fuerint ausi._

[14.] See R. E. Messenger, “The Mozarabic Hymnal,” _TAPhA_ 75 (1944) 103-126.

[15.] _The Irish Liber Hymnorum_, edited by J. H. Bernard and R. Atkinson, _Henry Bradshaw Soc. Pub._ 13, 14 (London, 1897, 1898), 14, 23-6.

[16.] _Antiphonary of Bangor_, chap. I, note 4; for history of the manuscript now in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, p. xii-xiii.

[17.] Translations of first lines, 1) J. M. Neale, 2), 3), 4) R. E. Messenger.

[18.] The Celtic hymns are edited in _A. H._ 51, Part II. See also J. F. Kenney, _Sources for the Early History of Ireland_, 2 vols. (New York, 1929) 252-3, 258-274, _Hymns_.

[19.] Translations of first lines in Summary by J. M. Neale except 2) C. Bigg, 7) G. R. Woodward.

[20.] C. W. Douglas, _Church Music in History and Practice_ (New York, 1937) 168.