Victimae Paschali

Victimae Paschali. This Easter sequence* is usually attributed to Wipo of Burgundy* (ca.995 - after 1048), based on a marginal note in the 12th-century Einsiedeln manuscript, Einsiedeln 366, p. 17, although this may reflect the common medieval practice of attribution to eminent persons rather than being historically accurate. The sequence appears in Paris, BN lat. 10510, an 11th century manuscript from Echternach, possibly copied too early for Wipo to have been the author (Crocker, 2001). In some versions ‘Victimae Paschali’ is four stanzas long, in others seven. The stanza ‘Credendum est magis soli’ is normally omitted in modern books and translations because of its anti-semitism. The...