Hymni Ecclesiae
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Description
Hymni Ecclesiae gathers the Latin hymns of the church, printed by Macmillan at London in 1865. The presses at Oxford set the type. The first part draws its hymns from the Paris breviary, the book of daily services used in that diocese. The second part draws from the breviaries of Rome, Salisbury, and York, and from elsewhere.
The preface begins with the apostle's three kinds of church song: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Two of the three, the editor notes, are supplied by inspiration itself. Hymns are the work of men, and this book collects the best of them in the original Latin. Such collections served the hymn writers of the age, who were then turning the old office hymns into English verse for Victorian hymnals. The book is a quarry from which half the hymns in the pew book were hewn.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 291 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |