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Hymnus sancti Khiliani confessoris
verse beg. Confessorem Kylianum / ueneremur, non sit uanum

  • Latin
  • verse
Short Latin metrical hymn (4 qq) in honour of St Kilian, preserved in a north Italian manuscript.
First words (verse)
  • Confessorem Kylianum / ueneremur, non sit uanum
Author
Anonymous. According to Dreves, most of the hymns added to the manuscript were written by a single author who was associated with Ivrea, as suggested by the hymn on St Tegulus, or a Schottenkloster in northern Italy, as suggested by the hymns on Irish saints.
Manuscripts
Language
  • Latin
Date
11th century?
Provenance
Origin: Italy, northItaly, north

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Form
verse (primary)
Textual relationships
Related: Hymnus sancti Brendani confessorisHymnus sancti Brendani confessorisShort Latin metrical hymn (4 qq) in honour of St Brendan, preserved in a north Italian manuscript.
Hymnus sancti Patricii confessorisHymnus sancti Patricii confessorisShort Latin metrical hymn (4 qq) in honour of St Patrick, preserved in a north Italian manuscript.
Hymnus sancti Brendani confessorisHymnus sancti Brendani confessorisShort Latin metrical hymn (4 qq) in honour of St Brendan, preserved in a north Italian manuscript.

Classification

Subjects

Saint KilianSaint Kilian
(d. 689)
Kilian, Cilian
Irish missionary, bishop of Würzburg and a martyr who was commemorated in two passiones.
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[ed.] Dreves, Guido Maria, Hymnographi latini: lateinische Hymnendichter des Mittelalters, 2 vols, Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, 48, 50, Leipzig: O.R. Reisland, 1905–1907.
Internet Archive – vols 1 and 2: <link>
90 [id. 91.]
[ed.] Dümmler, Ernst, Anselm der Peripatetiker: nebst andern Beiträgen zur Literaturgeschichte Italiens im eilften Jahrhundert, Halle, 1872.
Internet Archive: <link>
103 Reprint.
[ed.] Dümmler, Ernst, “Gedichte aus Ivrea”, Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum 14:2 (1869): 245–265.
Internet Archive: <link>  : <link>
255–256 [id. 5.]
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