Tue, 11 Dec 2007
Biblia Clerus
Here's a new website from the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy: Biblia Clerus. The idea is to present the Bible with each chapter/verse keyed to patristic commentary, liturgical texts, etc.
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Sat, 03 Nov 2007
Document dump
I have plans for Bernard's sermons on the Missus Est; here's what else I turned up.
- Writings of St. Louis Marie de Montfort
- St Bernard's Advent and Christmas sermons (including the sermons on the "Missus Est"); also see Marco Binetti's St Bernard etexts from the Patrologia Latina (PL 182-185)
- James Cotter Morison's biography of St Bernard
- the same from Don Mabillon, volume 1 and volume 2.
- Dalgairns' life of St Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercians
- Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts
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Fri, 12 Oct 2007
Why is my online bookbag so danged heavy?
Another haul from Google Books, from a search for the hymns of St Hilary of Poitiers:
- The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns, Samuel Willoughby Duffield, 1889, Funk & Wagnalls
- St. Hilary of Poitiers and St. Martin of Tours By John Gibson Cazenove, 1883, E. & J. B. Young & Co.
- Sacred Latin Poetry: Chiefly Lyrical, Selected and Arranged for Use. With Notes and Introduction, Richard Chenevix Trench, 1874, Macmillan and Co.
- Latin Hymns: With English Notes edited by Francis Andrew March, 1874, Harper & Brothers
- Latin Hymns, compiled by William Augustus Merrill, 1904 B.H. Sanborn
- Hymni Ecclesiæ, edited by John Henry Newman, 1865
- The Seven Great Hymns of the Mediaeval Church, Charles C. Nott, 1902, E. S. Gorham
- Literature and Poetry, Philip Schaff, 1890, C. Scribner's sons
- Mediæval Hymns and Sequences, 3rd ed., John Mason Neale, 1867, J. Masters
- Latin Hymns in English Verse: With Short Biographical Sketches of Their Authors, James Heartt Van Buren, Henry Parks Wright, 1904, Old Corner Bookstore
- St. Basil's Hymnal (a Catholic hymnal & prayerbook), Basilian Fathers, 1891, St. Michael's College (Toronto, Ont.)
- Anglican Hymnology, James King, 1885, Hatchards
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Tue, 09 Oct 2007
Testing a new version of an old blog
A few years ago I started a blog devoted to writings about the mysteries of the Rosary, but like many of my ever-welling monomanias it didn't last all that long. Here's a new version, done in emacs and pyblosxom like this one. Pardon the dust in the corners.
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Mary Foreshadowed
Ah, Google Books! Mary Foreshadowed; or, Considerations on the Types and Figures of Our Blessed Lady in the Old Testament. Rev. F. Thaddeus, O.S.F.
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The Fathers on the mysteries of the Rosary
When titles were titles: The Book of the Holy Rosary: A Popular Doctrinal Exposition of its Fifteen Mysteries, Mainly Conveyed in Select Extracts From the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. With an Explanation of Their Corresponding Types in the Old Testament. A Preservative Against Unbelief. Rev. Henry Formby, of the Third Order of St Dominic.
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007
Gregory's Moralia in Job
part of the 1850s English edition edition at Google Books:
- Volume 2 (parts 3 and 4: books 11-22)
- Volume 3, Part 1 (part 5 and books 28 and 29)
- Volume 3, Part 2 (books 30-35)
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