The Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church
A Study and Edition of the 'Durham Hymnal'

This 1996 book provides a study and critical edition of the corpus of hymns sung by English monks and canons before the Norman Conquest.

Inge B. Milfull (Author)

9780521462525, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 5 December 1996

512 pages, 3 b/w illus. 2 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.92 kg

'Milfull's work should quickly become not only a useful specialized monograph but also a standard reference tool.' Early Medieval Europe

This 1996 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 It assembles textual evidence, some of it hitherto unpublished, based on all extant manuscripts.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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]