Deus Creator omnium

Deus Creator omnium. Ambrose of Milan* (339/340- 397). This hymn is accepted as certainly by Ambrose. It is the hymn quoted by Augustine of Hippo* in his Confessions, Book 9, chapter 12, as comforting him after the death of his mother, and is quoted several other times in the same work (4:10, 10:34 and 11:27). He also writes of singing it in De musica. It was used for daily Vespers in the Old Hymnal, and (rarely) in the Frankish Hymnal. Through the middle ages, it was almost always a Vespers hymn. Two exceptions are: Matins, de propheta (that is, ferial Matins in the period from August to Advent when the books of the prophets were read liturgically): Klosterneuburg,...