Iesu Redemptor omnium

Iesu Redemptor omnium. Latin, author unknown. This anonymous hymn, beginning ‘Iesu Redemptor omnium,/ Perpes corona praesulum’ (‘Jesu, redeemer of all, perpetual crown of bishops’), was used for the Feast of a Confessor in the New Hymnal. In many instances the first line was taken over to make other hymns for the commemoration of an individual saint (see Analecta Hymnica 11. 77, 95, 100; 16. 234), or for the resurrection (AH 27. 107-8). Milfull (Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 405-7) gives it as anonymous, and says that it was assigned to Lauds. It is found in many medieval breviaries. See also AH 51. 133-4 (no 117), Walpole, Early Latin Hymns, no 123. It is printed in...