Anonymous Latin Hymns

Hymns of the Latin Church whose authorship is unknown, doubtful or disputed: breviary hymns, sequences and anonymous compositions of the early and later Middle Ages, together with a few whose authors are named in the source but are not otherwise represented in this archive.

They are given mainly in three English versions: the Breviary and Missal hymns of Edward Caswall's Lyra Catholica (1849), John Mason Neale's translations (1867), and John Brownlie's Hymns of the Early Church (1896), whose source notes on authorship are reproduced in the poem notes. Catherine Winkworth's version of the Veni Sancte Spiritus, from C. C. Nott's The Seven Great Hymns of the Mediaeval Church (1902), is also included. Each poem's note gives the Latin first line and its place in the source.