Ad regias Agni dapes

Ad regias Agni dapes. Latin, Roman Breviary, 1632. This is the 1632 Roman Breviary version of an anonymous Ambrosian hymn, ‘Ad cenam Agni providi’*. For the two texts, see Daniel, Thesaurus Hymnologicus I. 88. A&M, from the First Edition onwards, included a translation of ‘Ad regias Agni dapes’ by Robert Campbell*, from his Hymns and Anthems for Use in the Holy Services of the Church within the United Diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane (Edinburgh, 1850), beginning ‘At the Lamb’s high feast we sing’*. There are three 8-line stanzas, magnificent in their Easter joy, with a doxology: At the Lamb’s high feast we singPraise to our victorious King,Who hath washed us in the...