Cambridge Songs
The Cambridge Songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia) are a collection of
History and content
The songs as they survive are copies made shortly before or after the
The Cambridge Songs were long thought to be forty-nine in number, but a missing folio that contained twenty-seven more was discovered in Frankfurt and returned to the University Library in 1982. All these songs were copied in the same hand. Seven songs in a different hand, but occurring in the same Codex (after the first forty-nine) have since been identified as probably part of the collection. The total number of Cambridge Songs is now considered to be eighty-three. Some of the verses are
List of songs
All the songs in the Cambridge codex (ff.432–44) are sometimes catalogued as "Lyrics in honour of the emperors of Germany in the first half of the XI century". Those songs from Nenia de mortuo Heinrico II imperatore to Gratulatio regine a morbo recreate directly praise the rulers of the Salian dynasty.
- Carmen Christo dictum
- Modus qui et Carelmanninc
- Laudes Christo acte
- Hymnus paschalis
- Resurrectio
- Ad Mariam
- De epiphania
- Rachel
- De domo s. Cecilie Coloniensis
- De s. Victore carmen Xantense
- De Heinrico
- Modus Ottinc
- Nenia de mortuo Heinrico II imperatore
- Nenia in funebrum pompam Heinrici II imperiatoris
- Cantilena in Conradum II factum imperatorem
- Cantilena in Heinricum III anno 1028 regem coronatum
- Nenia de mortuo Conrado II imperatore
- Gratulatio regine a morbo recreate
- Cantilena in Heribertum archiepiscopum Coloniensis
- Ecclesie Trevirensis nomine scripti ad Popponem archiepiscopum versus
- De Willelmo
- Modus Liebinc
- De proterii filio
- De Lantfrido et Corbone
- Modus florum
- Herigêr
- De Iohanne abbate
- Sacerdos et lupus
- Alfrâd
- Carmen estivum
- De luscinio
- Verna femine suspiria
- Invitatio amice
- Magister puero
- Clericus et nonna
- In languore perio
- Lamentatio Neobule
- Admonitio iuvenum
- De musica
- De mensa philosophie
- De simphoniis et de littera Pithagore
- Diapente et diatesseron
- Umbram Hectoris videt Eneas
- Hipsipile Archemorum puerum a serpente necatum plorat
- Argie lamentatio maritum polinicum a fratre interfectum in venientis
- Nisus omnigenti
Notes
- ^ Sidwell 2012, p. 244
Sources
- Strecker, Karl (ed.). Die Cambridger Lieder. MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum 40. Berlin, 1926. Scans available online from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, HTML text from Bibliotheca Augustana.
- Breul, Karl (ed.). The Cambridge Songs: A Goliard's Songbook of the Eleventh Century . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915. Scans Available as PDF from Internet Archive. Reprinted: New York: AMS Press, 1973. Includes images from the manuscript.
- Harrington, Karl Pomeroy; Joseph Michael Pucci; and Allison Goddard Elliott (1997). Medieval Latin. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Anderson, Harald. The Manuscripts of Statius, Vol. I, pp. 58–59. Arlington: 2009, ISBN 1-4499-3192-8
- Sidwell, K. (2012) Reading Medieval Latin, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 244.
Further reading
- Rigg, Arthur G. and Gernot R. Wieland. "A Canterbury classbook of the mid-eleventh century (the 'Cambridge Songs' manuscript)." Anglo-Saxon England4 (1975): 113-30.
- Ziolkowski, Jan (1994). The Cambridge songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia). Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Series A vol. 66 (New York: Garland Pub.; ISBN 0-86698-234-5).