Chapter Six
Late Middle Ages: Processional Hymns
[1.] _Matt_. 21: 4-ll; _Mark_ 11: 7-11; _Luke_ 19: 35-38; _John_ 12: 12-5.
[2.] Basil, _Ep_. 207, _Ad Neocaes, MPG_ 32. 765; Ambrose, _Ep._ 40. 16, _Ad Theodosium, MPL_ 16. 1107; Sozomen, _Hist. Eccles._ VIII, 8; see also Tertullian, _Ad uxorem_, II, 4, MPL 1. 1294.
[3.] _S. Silviae, quae fertur, Peregrinatio ad loca sancta, in Itinera Hierosolymitana, Saeculi III-VIII_, ed. P. Geyer (Vindobonae, 1898) _CSEL_ 39. 35-101.
[4.] _Ibid._ XXIV, 1-7, 8-12; XXV, 7; XXVI; XXXI; XL, 1-2.
[5.] A. Bludau, _Die Pilgerreise der Aetheria, Studien zur Gesch. u. Kultur d. Altertums XV_, 1/2, (Paderborn, 1927) 56. Translation, Robert Bridges.
[6.] A. Baumstark, _Die Idiomela der byzantinischen Karfreitagshoren etc._ Reviewed in _Jahrbuch f. Liturgiewissenschaft_, 10 (1930) 339-40.
[7.] P. Batiffol, _Études de liturgie et d’archéologie chrétienne_, (Paris, 1919) ch. VI, _La Chandeleur_, p. 200.
[8.] Ambrose, _Ep_. 11(53), _MPL_ 17. 743-4; Augustine, _De Civ. Dei_ 22. 8; _Conf._ 9. 7; See also the hymn _Grates tibi, Jesu, novas_, attributed to Ambrose, _A. H._ 50. 17.
[9.] G. H. Cobb, “Early Catholic Outdoor Processions,” _The Month_, 148 (1926) 539-542.
[10.] For Mamertus, see Greg. Turonen., _Hist. franc._ 2. 34, _MPL_ 71. 230-32. _Councils_. Council of Orleans, 511, canon 17, Mansi VIII, 355; Council of Girona, 517, _Capit._ 2 & 3, Mansi, VIII, 549; see also 17th Council of Toledo, 694, _Capit._ 6, Mansi XII, 99-100. _Litaniae maiores_, Greg. Magnus, _Ep._ V, 11, Litany on Feast of St. John Baptist, _MPL_ 77, 732-3; _Litania septiformis_, Greg. Turonen., _Hist. franc._ 10, 1, _MPL_ 71. 519-20; Joh. Diac., _Vita Greg. Magn._, 1. 41, 42, MPL 75. 80.
[11.] L. Duchesne, _Christian Worship_, (London, 1904) 240, 515.
[12.] P. Batiffol, (note 7) 197-201; L. Eisenhofer, _Handbuch der Katholischen Liturgik_, 2 vols. (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1923) I, 582-6.
[13.] At this point the definition of _processio_ in Canon Law is of interest: _Nomine sacrarum processionum significantur solemnes supplicationes quae a populi fideli, duce clero, fiunt eundo ordinatim de loco sacro ad locum sacrum, ad excitandam fidelium pietatem, ad commemoranda Dei beneficia eique gratias agendas, ad divinum auxilium implorandum_. Can. 1290. ç I.
[14.] B. M. Peebles, “Fortunatus, Poet of the Holy Cross,” _Amer. Church Monthly_ 38 (1935, July-Sept.) 152-166. His account is based upon Greg. Turonen., _Hist. franc._, IX, 40; Baudonovia, _Vita S. Rad._, II. 16.
[15.] R. E. Messenger, _Salve festa dies, TAPhA_, 78 (1947) 208-222. Translation, S. A. Hurlbut; for _Salve festa dies_, traditional.
[16.] Dom M. Férotin, _Liber ordinum_, in _Monumenta ecclesiae liturgica_, 5 (Paris, 1904) 178-87; Isidore of Seville, _De ecclesiasticis officiis_, 1. 38.
[17.] Férotin, _supra_, 179.
[18.] A. S. Walpole, _Early Latin Hymns_, (ch. 1, note 3) 337-340. Translation, 1st line, Walpole.
[19.] Duchesne, _supra_, 162-4.
[20.] Walpole, _supra_, 342-4.
[21.] Translations in this chapter, unless otherwise noted, are furnished by the author.
[22.] L. Gautier, _Histoire de la Poésie liturgique etc._ (ch. 4, note 9) ch. VI, _Versus_.
[23.] Von den Steinen, _Notker der Dichter etc._ (ch. 4, note 25) I, 40-42.
[24.] Eisenhofer (see note 12) I, 522-3.
[25.] Dom A. Wilmart, _Auteurs spirituels etc._ (Paris, 1932) 26-36.
[26.] R. E. Messenger, _Sancta Maria quid est?, Cath. Choirmaster_, June, 1950.
[27.] Eisenhofer, _supra_, I, 100-102.
[28.] Du Cange, see _versarius_.
[29.] Gulielmus Durandus, _Rationale divinorum officiorum_ (Lugdini, 1612) Bk. IV, _De accessu sacerdotis ac pontificis ad altare et de Processione_.
[30.] _Ibid._ fol. 102.
[31.] D. Attwater, _Dictionary of Saints_ (London, 1938) 180.
[32.] G. Reese, _Music in the Middle Ages_ (ch. 1, note 11) 201.
[33.] L. Ellinwood, “The Conductus,” _Musical Quarterly_, 27 (1941) 2. 165-203.