493
3
554
32 (the prophecy only).
496
49-52
606 f.
46; the letter of Paschasius,
3. Tillemont, whose accuracy is commonly unimpeachable, says of the Life (Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire Ecclesiastique des six Premiers Siècles, Paris, 1701-12, xvi, p. 180) " Elle est traduite en françois dans les Saints illustres de Mr. d'Andilli." A careful search, however, has so far failed to reveal such a translation. The reference to it in Remy Ceillier's Histoire Générale, des Auteurs Sacrés et Ecclésiastiques (Paris, 1729-63), xvi, p. 158, may be borrowed from Tillemont.
4. A remarkable Neapolitan hymnary, apparently that of the monastery of Saint Severinus, is preserved in two closely related manuscripts of about the end of the tenth century, Codex Vaticanus 7172 and MS. 1092 of the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Guido Maria Dreves has printed it from these, under the title of Hymnarius Severi-nianus, as volume xiv a of Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi (Leipsic, 1893). In it are two hymns (34 and 35, in Dreves's edition) in praise of Saint Severinus. The second dates from the tenth century, as is shown by its reference to the signs and wonders that accompanied the translation of the relics of the saint from the Lucullan castle to Naples. It contains nothing of biographical interest. The other was first published by Antoine Frédéric Ozanam, in his Documents Inédits pour servir a l'Histoire Littéraire de l'Italie (Paris, 1850), pp. 241 ff., from the Vatican manuscript. It is Ozanam's opinion that it was composed shortly after the preparation of the Life. The classical purity of form and the unblurred outline of the story strongly support this view. After Ozanam, Migne, Sauppe, Knoell, and Mommsen, in their editions of the Life, and Dreves (as above) have printed the hymn. Dreves alone has used the Paris manuscript. He has also supplied, from another hymn with a similar ending, the last three lines of the final stanza, the Doxology, which is incomplete in the manuscripts. His text is, however, carelessly printed. André Baudrillart gives a French translation as an appendix to his Saint Séverin (1908). Sebastian Brunner in his translation of the Life (1879), pp. 181 f., gives in German a very free metrical paraphrase, "so arranged," he says, "that it might be sung as a church hymn on the festival of the saint." Its suitability for this purpose is lessened by the fact that Brunner has inadvertently substituted 'Silenus' for 'Silvinus' in his rendering of the ninth stanza.
The text which is here presented follows that of Mommsen, with some correction of punctuation, and with the completing verses of the Doxology from Dreves. The marginal numerals in parentheses refer to chapters of the Life.
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