FOOTNOTES

The poem was then reprinted at least six times: “by David Chytraeus at Bremen, 1597; at Rostock, 1610; at Leipzig, 1626; by Eilhard Lubinus, at Lunenburg, 1640; in Wachler’s New Theological Annals, December, 1820; and in G. Ch. F. Mohnike’s Studien (Stralsund, 1824) I., 18.” Yet it had become so scarce that when I made my version of Dr. Trench’s cento, I could not find a complete copy in America. Since then I have received a copy of the edition of 1640 from a friend. Also the Boston Public Library has secured a copy of the Varia Poemata, which was once Theodore Parker’s, and bears the inscription, “A rare and curious book. T. P.”

The English translations are: (1) Dr. Trench has rendered a few lines in the metre of the original. (2) Dr. John M. Neale’s “Rhythm of Bernard of Morlaix” (1858). (3) Judge Noyes in the “Seven Great Hymns of the Latin Church.” (4) Dr. Abraham Coles. (5) “The Heavenly Land, from the De Contemptu Mundi of Bernard of Morlaix, rendered into corresponding English Verse,” by S. W. Duffield (1867). (6) A privately printed translation by “O. A. M.,” of Cherry Valley, N. Y. (Albany, 1867). (7) Gerard Moultrie in Lyra Mystica (1869). (8) Rev. Jackson Mason (London, 1880). Besides this, an English clergyman has perpetrated the folly of rendering Dr. Neale’s paraphrase into Horatian Latin verse, which would puzzle Bernard himself to recognize as derived from him.

Thomas de Celano, provinciae Pennensis, S. Francisci discipulas et socius, edidit ... librum de vita et miraculis S. Francisci ... communiter vocatum a fratribus legenda antiqua. Alteram legendam minorem prius ediderat, quae legebatur in choro...; sequentias tres, seu Prosas Rhythmicas, quarum prima in laudem S. Francisci incipit: “Fregit victor virtualis.” Secunda incipit: “Sanctitatis nova signa.” Tertia de Defunctis ab Ecclesiâ recepta: “Dies irae, dies illa.” Quam in versus Gallicos transtulit Benedictus Gononus Coelestinus et sancto Bonaventurae attribuit. Alii adscribunt Fr. Matthaeo cardinali Aquaspartano, et demum alii aliis auctoribus.—Syllabus Scriptorum et Martyrum Franciscanorum, p. 323 (Rome, 1650.)

The second papal war broke out in 1239. Both the orders of friars, Dominicans and Franciscans, were believed to be partisans of the Pope, and in 1239 such as were not natives of the kingdom were commanded to leave it. Richard of San Germano mentions this order sub anno 1239, and adds, sub anno 1240, that by November of the latter year all the Mendicants, except two of each monastery and those natives of the kingdom, had been expelled by order of the Emperor. What Dominicans were there left in Naples to win the affections of Thomas and receive him into the novitiate? The difficulty would be met by assuming 1225 as the date of Thomas’s birth, and his stay at Monte Casino as terminating with his tenth year, so that he might have been at Naples in 1235 and formed the purpose to enter the order in 1239. Or if he went to Naples in his twelfth year (1237), he might have become a Dominican novice after two years of study under professors of that order. It is true that novices were not to be received before their fifteenth year; but at any date after March of 1239 Thomas would be in his fifteenth year. It was March 24th of that year that saw the Emperor excommunicated, and some interval would elapse before the expulsion of the Mendicants.

Also Thomae Kempensis “De Imitatione Christi” libri quatuor. Textum ex autographo Thomae nunc primum accuratissime reddidit, distinxit, novo modo disposuit; capitulorum argumenta, locos parallelos adjecit Carolus Hirsche. Berlin, 1874.

Also his exhaustive article on the Brüder gemeinsamen Lebens in Herzog & Plitt’s Real-Encyclopädie: II., 678-760. (Leipzig, 1877).

Impressum hoc divinum Opus Romae.... Kal. Febru. MDXXV. (CXV. leaves, quarto.)

In the Vulgate, Isaiah 6, it reads,

The Septuagint, from which the older Latin version was made, retained the Hebrew word Sabaoth, instead of translating it. Verse 6 is an expansion of the Scripture text.

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