Note 25 — Chapter XXIX · THE UNKNOWN AND THE LESS KNOWN HYMN-WRITERS. [Fourth to Tenth Century.]

From Mostarab (participle of the Arabic verb Estarab), Arabized, conformed to Arabic modes of life. A misnomer in this case. It is the old Spanish liturgy as arranged by Isidore of Seville, and long upheld by the Spanish clergy against the attempt to introduce that of Rome. The Missal and Breviary were first published by Cardinal Ximenes in 1500; then carefully edited by Alexander Lesley, a Scottish Jesuit (Rome, 1755). His edition, with its learned apparatus, is reprinted in Volumes LXXXI.-II. of Abbé Migne’s Patrologia Latina.