Texts
Precamur patrem
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Latin hymn (42st) found in the Antiphonary of Bangor and quite possibly composed by Columbanus. It deals with Christ, Easter day and the salvation of mankind.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 5 inf
rubric: Hymnum apostolorum ut alii dicunt The rubric is in a different hand (see Lapidge).
MS
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 5 inf
rubric: Hymnus apostolorum / ut alii dicunt incipit: Precamur patrem [3] Hymn.
f. 4vb–
Sources
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[ed.] Herren, Michael W., and Shirley Ann Brown [eds.], Christ in Celtic Christianity: Britain and Ireland from the fifth to the tenth century, Studies in Celtic History, 20, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002.
[‘Appendix’]
[ed.] Warren, Frederick E. [ed.], and W. Griggs, The antiphonary of Bangor: an early Irish manuscript in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, 2 vols, Henry Bradshaw Society, 4, 10, London: Harrison, 1893–1895.
Secondary sources (select)
Lapidge, Michael, “Precamur patrem: an Easter hymn by Columbanus?”, in: Michael Lapidge (ed.), Columbanus: studies on the Latin writings, 17, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997. 255–263.
Stancliffe, Clare, “Venantius Fortunatus, Ireland, Jerome: the evidence of Precamur patrem”, Peritia 10 (1996): 91–97.
abstract:
The Irish hymn Precamur patrem does not draw on hymns of Venantius Fortunatus; rather prallels in Precamur patrem and Fortunatus’s hymns occur because both draw on Jerome’s letters. This strengthens the case for Columbanus’s authorship of the hymn while demolishing the evidence for the transmission of Fortunatus’s hymns from Poitiers to early medieval Ireland.
