Latin Hymns from the Paris Breviary: Matins in Septuagesima
The Hymn for Matins/Night Office/Vigils
In these posts I take a Latin hymn from the Paris Breviary, published by JH Parker in 1838 without translation, and translate it literally, without trying to make it read like a hymn.
Rebus creatis nil egens,
Temet beatus, nunc tuo
Prodis ab arcano, Deus,
Mundoque das primordia.
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Tu cuncta quae non sunt, vocas
Et illa se sistunt tibi;
Miroque concentu…
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