The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church

A Study and Edition of the 'Durham Hymnal'

Inge B. Milfull (Katholieke Universiteit Eichstätt, Germany)

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Cambridge University Press
03 February 1997

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Christian hymnals

Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England

This book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by monks and canons in their services in England before the Norman Conquest. It assembles textual evidence, some of it hitherto unpublished, based on all extant manuscripts. Of these, an eleventh-century Latin manuscript known as the 'Durham Hymnal', with its accompanying Old English interlinear gloss, provides the core of the edition and its base manuscript. An introduction and commentary include descriptions of the manuscripts concerned and discussions of the sources, liturgical use, and music of the hymns, as well as the phonology and vocabulary of the Old English gloss. The text of the hymns is accompanied by a translation of the Latin into modern English prose.

By: Inge B. Milfull (Katholieke Universiteit Eichstätt Germany)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 17
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 920g
ISBN: 9780521462525
ISBN 10: 0521462525
Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 03 February 1997
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Sources of the Anglo-Saxon hymnals; 2. The transmission of hymns in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts; 3. The language of the 'Durham Hymnal Gloss'; 4. Musical notation in the Anglo-Saxon hymnals; 5. Editorial procedures; Text, translation, commentary and apparatus; Appendices; Bibliography; General index to the introduction; Index of hymns incipits; Table of hymn numbers; Indexes.