Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
April 10th 2009 14:07
Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
Time to read Easter Hymns in Latin. While you can a lot of them online now (Important Googel Search Tip: Try Name of the Poet plus Firstl line of poem!) at various sites like Google Books and Patrologia Latina and more for those of us who enjoy the pleasure of paper pages try to acquire this out of print book
Mediaeval Latin Lyrics
A Translation by Helen Waddell
Penguin Classics 1952.
Will some one PLEASE REISSUE this ?
It's a great anthology and has the Latin TExt plus translation and notes!
The poets range from Petronius Arbiter thru to the Carmina Burana and others.
Some particularly good Easter poems with a Good Friday theme are
1) Paulinus of Nola's Verbum Crucis: Cerne deum nostro velatum corpore Christum, qui fragilis carne est, verbo cibus et cruce amarus: dura superficies, verbum crucis et crucis esca est, coelestem Christi claudens in carne medullam.
2) Peter Abelard In Parasceve Domini III Nocturno
Solus ad victimam procedis, Domine, morti te offerens quam venis tollere: quid nos miserrimi possumus dicere qui quae commisimus scimus te luere?
Wheter you're relaxing with something serious or silly I hope you have a great stack of Easter reading to enjoy!
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