LITERATURE
The following notes may be useful to some readers:—Daniel’s Thesaurus Hymnologicus (Leipsic, 1841-55); Mone’s Hymni Latini Medii Aevi (Freiburg, 1853-4-5), Christ’s Anthologia Graeca Carminum Christianorum; Trench’s Sacred Latin Poetry (1849): Duffield’s Latin Hymns (1889); Macdonald’s Latin Hymns of the Wesleyan Methodist Hymn-book (1899).
Neale’s Mediaeval Hymns, Hymns of the Eastern Church, &c.; Chandler’s Hymns of the Primitive Church; William’s Hymns from the Parisian Breviary (1839); Chambers’s Lauda Syon; Mant’s Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary; Chatfield’s Songs and Hymns of the Greek Christian Poets; Mrs. Charles’s Christian Life in Song; Moorsom’s Renderings of Church Hymns. See also articles in Dictionary of Hymnology, on ‘Greek,’ ‘Latin,’ and ‘Syriac,’ ‘Hymnody,’ ‘Te Deum,’ &c.
It should be remembered that many of the Breviary hymns are not ancient, but belong to the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.