Nox et tenebrae et nubila

Nox et tenebrae et nubila. Aurelius Clemens Prudentius* (ca. 348-ca. 413). This is a hymn constructed from lines in Prudentius’ Cathereminon II. It was sung at Lauds on Wednesdays (Milfull, Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1996, p. 156). The four-stanza text, followed by the doxology, ‘Deo patri sit gloria’ is in Daniel, Thesaurus Hymnologicus I. 120-1, and in Analecta Hymnica 50. 23-4, with the doxology ‘Praesta, pater piissime’. AH identifies the lines as Cathereminon II. 1-8; 48, 49, 52, 57, 59, 60, 67, 68. Cathereminon II was also the source of the hymn ‘Lux ecce surgit aurea’ (‘Behold it shines, the golden light’, Richard Mant*, one of several translations, see JJ, pp. 820-1). There...