Hymns attributed to John Dryden / edited with an introduction and notes by George Rapall Noyes and George Reuben Potter.

Hymns attributed to John Dryden / edited with an introduction and notes by George Rapall Noyes and George Reuben Potter.

Liturgy
Primer. 1706.

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1937.

ix, 221 p. : ill., facsim. ; 24 cm

University of California publications in English ; v. 6

English translations of Breviary hymns, with the Marian antiphons and Missal sequences; first published in the 1706 edition of The Primer or Office of the B. Virgin Mary. The translations have sometimes been attributed to Dryden. The introductory study questions this attribution.

Includes indexes.

Reprint of the original edition with reproduction of t.-p.: The Primer, or, Office of the B. Virgin Mary, revis'd: with a new and approv'd version of the church-hymns throughout the year; to which are added the remaining hymns of the Roman breviary. Printed in the year 1706.

"Certain students of Dryden have argued that he was the translator not only of the Veni, Creator Spiritus, but also of other pieces in the Primer of 1706"--p. l.

Bibliography: p. [209]-214.

Catholic Church. Breviary. Hymns. English. 1937.

University of California publications in English ; v. 6.

BV468.C4 E53 1937