Praise to Christ, with suppliant voices

Author: Richard Frederick Littledale

Littledale, Richard Frederick, LL.D., D.C.L., son of John Richard Littledale, merchant, was born at Dublin on the 14th of Sept, 1833, and was educated at Bective House Seminary, and Trinity College, Dublin. His University course was distinguished. In 1852 he became a University Scholar; in 1854 he was first class in Classics and gold medallist; in 1856 he won the Berkeley gold medal (for Greek), and other honours. He graduated B.A., 1855, M.A., 1858, LL.D., 1862, and D.C.L. at Oxford, 1862. Taking Holy Orders in 1856, he was Curate of St. Matthew's, in Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, from 1856 to 1857, and of St. Mary the Virgin, Soho, London, from 1857 to 1861. Through ill-health he retired from parochial work in 1861, and devoted himself to liter… Go to person page >

Laudes Christo redempti voce modulemur supplici. St. Notker. [Easter.] This is found in an Einsiedeln manuscript of the 10th century, 121, p. 566. It is also in the Prüm Gradual, written c. 1000 (Bibl. Nat. Paris Lat. 9448), and the Echternach Gradual of the 11th century (B. N. No. 10510); in the St. Gall manuscripts, Nos. 376, 381, of the 11th century in a manuscript c. 1200, in the Bodleian (Liturg. Misc. 340 f. 140 6); in a Gradual of the 11th or 12th century, in the British Museum (Reg. 8 C xiii. f. 13), and others. The printed text is in the Magdeburg Missal, 1480, and other later German Missals; in Daniel, ii. p. 178, and Kehrein, No. 92. Translated as:—
Praise to Christ with suppliant voices. By R. F. Littledale, in Lyra Messianica, 1864, p. 331; and again in the People's Hymnal, 1867, No. 116. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)