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Hymnus sancti Brendani confessoris
verse beg. Iam Brendani sanctos mores / canant fratres et sorores

  • Latin
  • verse
Short Latin metrical hymn (4 qq) in honour of St Brendan, preserved in a north Italian manuscript.
First words (verse)
  • Iam Brendani sanctos mores / canant fratres et sorores
Speaker/Addressee
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
Ivrea, Biblioteca capitolare, MS 85 = Psalterium Warmundi [c.1000]
f. 21
rubric: ‘Hymnus sancti Brendani confessoris’
beg. ‘Iam Brendani sanctos mores’
Added in a later hand.
Language
  • Latin
Date
11th century?
Provenance
Origin: Italy, northItaly, north
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
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Form
verse (primary)
Length
Number of stanzas: 4
Textual relationships
Related: Hymnus sancti Khiliani confessorisHymnus sancti Khiliani confessorisShort Latin metrical hymn (4 qq) in honour of St Kilian, 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.

Classification

Subjects

Brénainn of Clonfert
Brénainn of Clonfert
(d. 577)
Brénainn (Brenden; Brendan) mac Findloga, early Connacht saint, patron of Clonfert, and legendary voyager
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Sources

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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>
89
[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>
256 [id. 6.]
Translation wanted
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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December 2020, last updated: June 2023
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