A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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ID
https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Hymn.Praef
Title
Metrical preface to a collection of hymns
Language
Latin
Edited
H. Gneuss, Hymnar und Hymnen im englischen Mittelalter (Tübingen, 1968), p. 265
Listed
not in ICL or WIC
Metre
elegiac couplet
MSS
BL, Cotton Vespasian D.xii (CaCC?, s xi med), f.
Bibliography
  • N.R. Ker, Catalogue (Oxford 1957), p. 270
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N.Hymn.Praef

N.Hymn.Praef 1. Incipiunt ymni quod noctibus atque diebus Incipiunt ymni quod noctibus atque diebus
N.Hymn.Praef 2. Decantant monachi laudibus assiduis. Decantant monachi laudibus assiduis.
N.Hymn.Praef 3. His animis monachi celestia querere discit His animis monachi celestia querere discit
N.Hymn.Praef 4. Æternumque melos cogitat hisce modis. Æternumque melos cogitat hisce modis.