Chorus novae Ierusalem
Chorus novae Ierusalem. Perhaps by Fulbert of Chartres* (d. 1028). It is ascribed to St Fulbert, although, as Milfull points out, if it was by him it must have become popular very quickly (Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, p. 452), since it is found in two 11th century MSS (British Library, Vesp. D. xii, f. 72b and St Gall 387). It is written in the Ambrosian iambic dimeter (8+8+8+8 syllables in each verse).
It is an Eastertide hymn, with the first verse inviting ‘colens cum sobriis paschale festum gaudiis’ (‘the Paschal victory to hymn/ in strains of holy joy’ in the well-known translation by Robert Campbell*; see below). The hymn continues by alluding to the well known trope of Christ as...
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