Exultet caelum laudibus

Exultet caelum laudibus. Latin, 11th century (or possibly earlier). The earliest manuscripts containing this hymn include: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 12601 (Cluniac breviary used in the monastery of St. Taurin l'Echelle, dated 1064-1095); Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, C.5 (late eleventh or early twelfth century, written in Rome, taken to Sant'Eutizio di Norcia in 1219); Toledo, Catedral, Archivo y Biblioteca Capítulares, MS  44.2 (Toledo cathedral, ca 1095); the Winchester and Canterbury Hymnals, and in the 11th-century Durham hymnal (Milfull, Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1996, pp. 368-70). The text focuses on the role of the apostles, with Christ, in...