The Frankish Hymnal ( German : Fränkisches Hymnar , also called " Gallican Hymnal") is a collection of early medieval Latin hymns , most likely composed during the 6th to 8th centuries in Francia , recorded in a set of manuscripts of the mid-8th to early 9th century.
6-466: According to Helmut Gneuss (2000), the extant texts of the Frankish Hymnal are found in the following six manuscripts, all originating in northeastern France or southwestern Germany: A critical edition of the text was published by Bulst (1956). The Frankish Hymnal is one of the regional traditions of " Ambrosian hymns ", developed on the basis of the " Old Hymnal ", a collection of about 15 hymns of
12-533: A criticism of Byrhtnoth's generalship." His 1981 publication A preliminary list of manuscripts written or owned in England up to 1100 was described as the next milestone in Anglo-Saxon manuscript studies after Neil Ripley Ker 's 1957 book Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon . The "preliminary" list ("an indispensable tool and essential starting point for anyone interested in Anglo-Saxon literary culture")
18-485: Is of particular interest, as it includes a full set of Old High German glosses, likely still dating to the first quarter of the 9th century. Seventeen hymns are innovations to the Frankish Hymnal (underlined below), of which six survive into the New Hymnal. Helmut Gneuss Helmut Gneuss (29 October 1927 – 26 February 2023) was a German scholar of Anglo-Saxon and Latin manuscripts and literature. Gneuss
24-702: The Latin rite which surround the core of original hymns composed by saint Ambrose of Milan in the 4th century. Other regional traditions recognized in Fontaine (1992) are the "Milano Hymnal", the "Spanish Hymnal", and the "New Hymnal" as it developed for the use in Benedictine monasteries in the 9th to 11th centuries. Within the Frankish hymnal, the Oxford manuscript (the Murbach hymnal )
30-505: The Medieval Academy of America . Gneuss's 1976 article on the Anglo-Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon is regarded as "a turning point" in the history of Maldon scholarship. Specifically, his extensive lexicographical study of the important word ofermod "proved beyond doubt" that it means "pride", settling an important question in the interpretation of the poem; in the words of Fred C. Robinson , "the poet's use of ofermod signals
36-833: Was emeritus professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he occupied the chair for English language from 1965 to 1997. He served as Visiting Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974-75. He lived in Eichenau . He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities , the Academia Europaea , the British Academy , the Austrian Academy of Sciences , and
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