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The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns

Note 21 — Chapter XXIII · THOMAS OF CELANO. (continued 2)

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Hymni Sacri, Paris, 1685 and 1694. A second series in 1698. The two collections together in 1723. They are included in the editions of his works which appeared in 1698 and 1729, but not in that of 1694. Between sixty and seventy of them will be found in J. H. Newman’s Hymni Ecclesiae, Part First (London, 1838 and 1865), but without the author’s name. As Newman omits the hymns in honor of the saints not mentioned in the Scriptures, the fine hymns to St. Bernard, St. Augustine, and St. Judocus are not included. There are French translations by Abbé Saurin, 1691 (third edition, 1698), and by J. P. C. D., in 1760. For English translations see especially Rev. Isaac Williams’s Hymns of the Parisian Breviary (1839), and J. D. Chambers’s Lauda Syon (1857), and the Lyra Messianica (1864).

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