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The Legends of St. Peter in Medieval Latin Hymns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Joseph Szövérffy
Joseph Szövérffy*
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Irish Folklore Commission, University College, Dublin
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When in 1922 Clemens Blume published the fifty-fifth volume of the Analecta Hymnica, almost a hundred years of development in the field of Latin hymnology reached its final stage. Although the idea of collecting hymns was not an outcome of the growing interest in literature in the nineteenth century, the first extensive work in this field was not begun earlier than about the middle of that century. A study of the origins of this research and of certain aspects of the work in its earliest stages, while not to be attempted here, would be of great interest — and instructive as well; for it appears that many errors and many misconceptions of the subject go back directly to the lack of a methodical and scientific approach on the part of the earlier hymnologists.

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Traditio , Volume 10 , 1954 , pp. 275 - 322
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118 The same motif is repeated in several other hymns together with the alliteration. E. g. ‘Nero fremens furibundus’ (AH 40.272) and variations, ‘Nero fremit iracundus / et pro mago furibundus’ (ibid. 10.289).Google Scholar

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126 Reprinted in many collections. I quote only: AH 2.55; Mone (cit. supra n. 44), III 88; Walpole (cit. supra n. 24) 94-97. Walpole states that the word ‘volens’ used of St. Peter in this hymn (‘sed volens mortem subegit asperam’ line 19f.) refers to the ‘Quo vadis’ legend (cf. ibid. 92-93 and n. on line 19). I have some doubts in this respect; but, in any case, the single word can not be regarded as a legendary motif of full value. Thus, this passage can be eliminated as an echo of legends in early hymns.Google Scholar

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130 Relevant data were collected from the surviving poems of the Carolingian period. St. Peter is mentioned, e.g., in MGH, P(oetae) L(atini) A(evi) C(arolini) I (ed. Dümmler, E.; 1881): pp. 5, 60, 113, 116, 127, 136, 199, 230, 247, 307, 311, 315, 330, 334, 335, 338, 341, 476, 479, 523, 535, 562, 571, and in a few other pages not registered in the Index: 90, 98 128 (cf. AH 27.228) 136 (cf. AH 2.53), 140, 210, 245, 258, etc. (but no trace anywhere of the legends dealt with above); II (also ed. Dümmler; 1884): pp. 5, 35, 78, 85, 126, 151, 161, 170, 192, 205, 207, 211, 217, 221, 224, 226, 227, 229, 231, 233, 249, 251, 255, 393, 408, 426, 427, 447, 481, 509, 511, 513, 515, 518, 520, 522, 523, 533, 540, 581, 585, 586, 588, 590, 591, 596, 655, 679, 680, 686, etc. The texts vary widely in character but little appears that is in the nature of a hymn; this is true also of the further volumes of PLAC: III (ed. Traube, L.; 1886-1896): pp. 84, 87, 134, 170, 174, 175, 187, 192, 203, 207, 210, 222, 237, 253, 263, 379, 411, 458, 474, 475, 502, 556, 569, 570, 592, 634, 636, 639, 652, 661, 731, 740, 741; IV. 1 (ed. von Winterfeld, P.; 1899); IV.2, 3 (ed. Strecker, K.; 1914-1923): pp. 18, 42, 71, 136, 154, 199, 207, 240, 331, 332, 337, 398, 413, 418, 481, 490, 502, 503, 533, 564, 565, 575, 720, 767, 777, 969, 1014, 1049, 1050, etc. Among the few hymns published in PLAC, we may note: Paulinus Aquileiensis, ‘O Petre, petra ecclesiae,’ and ‘Felix per omnes’ (both I 136); Hrabanus Maurus, ‘Sanctorum pariter’ (II 250).Google Scholar

131 In PLAC I-IV no more than two poems deal with the Simon Magus legend; neither is a hymn and the allusion in each case is brief: Sedulius Scottus, ‘De virtutitus petri Apostoli’ (lines 24, 29f.: III 188); Johannes Diaconus, ‘Versiculi de Cena Cypriani’ (epilogus, strophe 5, line 4: IV 2.900 [quoted infra, n. 159]). We may regard the ‘Versiculi’ as a precursor of a type of poem often recorded later, in the time of the church reform movement after the eleventh century; cf. also PLAC I 258, lines 41-46.Google Scholar

132 Traube, L., ‘O Roma nobilis,’ Abhandl. der Königl. bayer. Akad. der Wiss. 1. Cl. 19.2 (1891) 299–309, re-editing the text (p. 300), also found AH 51.219f. and elsewhere. For an example of the now general acceptance in principle of Traube's dating (yet see the following note), see Manitius, M., Geschichte der lat. Literatur des Mittelalters I (München 1911) 635f. On various aspects of the hymn see the recent article of M. Peebles, B. (‘O Roma nobilis,’ American Benedictine Review 1 [1950] 67-92), whose assistance in connection with this poem and in many other ways I here gladly acknowledge.Google Scholar

133 The original dating (Niebuhr's) in the last years of the Roman empire was approved by Manitius in his earlier work, Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Poesie bis zur Mitte des 8. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart 1891) 378. Blume's mature opinion (cf. AH 51.219 for the earlier) was that the poem comes from the end of the eleventh or the beginning of the twelfth century (Ein Jahrtausend lateinischer Hymnendichtung [Leipzig 1909] II 347; cf. Raby, Christian-Latin Poetry 2 234 n. 2).Google Scholar

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136 AH 19.208; the legendary tradition of St. Mark's activity in Aquileia is reflected in the earliest examples of Carolingian court poetry, e.g. ‘Carmen de Aquilegia’ (PLAC II 151), and a hymn attributed to Paulinus II (PLAC I 140 = AH 50.143); cf. supra, p. 283. Yet these records of conversion, baptism and the like attributed to St. Peter are read in other poems but never in hymns. Cf. the ‘Martyrologium’ by Wandalbertus Prumiensis, lines 271-274 (PLAC II 585).Google Scholar

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140 Ibid. 53.300f. Only a few of the earliest examples of the kind have been given here. A complete list would not, however, yield a more exact impression.Google Scholar

141 This period is always referred to as a period of change with little explanation. Thus Julian declares: ‘The greatest change, however, which took place at this period in Church Song had relation to the Blessed Virgin… A similar change and revolution took place in and after the 14th century in the Western Church with the hymnody which related to the Apostles, Saints, Martyrs, Confessors, and Virgins… Several [sequences] are of St. Peter and the other Apostles singly, most of which are narratives of their lives and martyrdom… Several are of Peter and Paul jointly, two or three of which are in our early English books’ (Dictionary [cit. supra n. 11] 650f.).Google Scholar

142 St. Petronilla is mentioned without details of her legend in some texts of the Carolingian period, PLAC II 207, 218, 586. Alcuin refers to her as ‘Petronilla patris praeclari filia’ (PLAC I 341), and Wandalbertus inserted her name in his ‘Martyrologium,’ lines 304, 566 (PLAC 586, 594).Google Scholar

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151 Cf. Dobiache, O.-Rojdestvensky, Les poésies des Goliards (Paris 1931) 74, 76, 78, 82, 86, 92, 97, 100, 111, etc.Google Scholar

152 Luke 22.35-38.Google Scholar

153 On the MS, see V. Zingerle, I. in Sitzungsb. Wien 54 (1866) 293–340; for the poem ‘De duobus gladiis,’ p. 309 (on ‘B1. 15a’).Google Scholar

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158 Cf. Raby, Christian-Latin Poetry 2 250-252.Google Scholar

159 It is characteristic that a Carolingian poem recording the Simon Magus story deals also with problems of Church reform. We read in the poem by Johannes Diaconus (cf. supra n. 131):Google Scholar

Quando simplex Job Formosum condempnabat subdolum,
Quando largus sanctus Petrus avarum Gregorium,
Quando vastus sanctus Paulus incestum Georgium
Spiritus virtute sancti binis in sinodibus.
Unde dudum conculcata gaudet ecclesia…
Solus Petrus, Christo duce vincens dampnat noxios:
Saphyram, Simonem magum, Herodem, Ananiam…

(‘Versiculi de Cena Cypriani,’ epilogus, strophe 2, lines 1-4; strophe 3, line 1; strophe 5, lines 3-4: PLAC IV 899f.). One should advert to the fact that there is no exact indication of whether the poet refers to the legend of Simon Magus or only to the scene described in the Acts (cit. supra n. 100). Cf. also PLAC I 258 (lines 41-46). — We may suppose that the tradition of quoting Simon Magus and his legend as prototype of abuses in the Church and especially of ‘simony’ is older than the Church reform movement of Cluny. Even if it is so, the final amalgamation of the two ideas is completed only after the spread of the reform. A parallel case is that of the ‘Goliardic’ poetry, whose authors had forerunners as early as the ninth century according to Jarcho B. I., ‘Die Vorläufer des Golias,’ Speculum 3 (1928) 577.

160 A survey of the relationship of thirty-one St. Peter-sequences written between the 11th and the 16th cent. will be published in a separate study. Most of the sequences referred to above belong to the group dealt with in this forthcoming work.Google Scholar

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165 The best Latin edition is that of Graesse (cit. supra n. 40); its French translation: Th. Wyzewa, de, La Légende dorée (2nd ed. Paris 1930).Google Scholar

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168 According to Zuidweg, op. cit. 182, this legend must be regarded as one of the most phantastic stories in the Golden Legend. In addition to the Golden Legend, we find a number of prose and metrical (or rhythmical) narratives dealing with the Simon Magus legend hardly less extensively than does Jacobus: e.g. Harster, G., Novem vitae sanctorum metricae… (Lipsiae 1887) 1–14 (a double ‘Passio’ and a series of ‘Epigrammata’ found in two 11th-ccnt. Munich MSS).Google Scholar

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171 Ibid. 370-371.Google Scholar

172 ‘Ejus martirium Marcellus, Linus papa, Hegesippus et Leo papa scripserunt’ (ibid. 369); cf. also 371, 372, 373 (‘ut refert Leo’).Google Scholar

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175 . Ibid. 376f.Google Scholar

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177 Graesse, , Legenda Aurea 369f. — A group of aetiological stories is attached to St. Peter's tears: see Dähnhardt, O., Natursagen (Leipzig 1909) II 199; S. Rappoport, A., Medieval Legends of Christ (London 1934) 187.Google Scholar

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179 Ibid. 70-78. In St. Peter's place, the Holy Ghost is mentioned.Google Scholar

180 Ibid. 457.Google Scholar

181 Blume's opinion is thus expressed: ‘Leider mussten auch jetzt noch alle Dichtungen, für die er als Autor in Betracht kommen kann, mit einem die Unsicherheit verratenden «Ascribitur» versehen werden’ (AH 55.vii). On Adam and the sequences ascribed to him, see Raby, , Christian-Latin Poetry 2 345-375. The most recent edition of Adam's sequences with German translations: Fr. Wellner, Adam von St. Victor: Sämtliche Sequenzen (Wien 1937).Google Scholar

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184 For the manuscripts preserving ‘Gaude Roma,’ see AH 55.314f.; two or three of them might be from the 12th cent., unlike those recording ‘Roma Petro glorietur’ (cf. ibid. 322). As regards ‘Tu es Petrus,’ see supra. Google Scholar

185 Cf. Wrangham, D. S., The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor (London 1881) II 250: ‘Here Adam leaves the Scripture history and follows the Golden Legend, “De Sancto Petro Apostolo,” which, according to Gautier, is filled with marvels too fabulous to be reproduced.’Google Scholar

186 AH 53.335f.; from Benevento. The development of the regular St. Peter sequences and their forerunners are discussed in my forthcoming survey (cf. supra n. 160).Google Scholar

187 The Simon Magus episode is reduced in extent to a minimum in one of these sequences for the Feast of St. Peter's Chains, and it is very difficult to determine if it is derived from the legend or (as is more likely) from the scene in the Acts: Discipulo gratiae Sub obtentu veniae Offertur spes copiae Temporalis… (AH 10.289).Google Scholar

188 ‘Alma virtus’ (AH 8.205), ‘Sion laude debita’ (39.250), ‘Corde puro’ (55.319), ‘Senatores caelestis’ (40.267), ‘Sanctorum devotio’ (10.288), ‘Summa summi’ (8.204), ‘Senatores summi regis’ (40.274), etc. (see supra n. 160).Google Scholar

189 Included: AH 3.49f. (on St. Peter alone); supplying only negative evidence: ibid. 48f. (on Sts. Peter and Paul).Google Scholar

190 Ibid. 3.179f.Google Scholar

191 St. Etto (Etho) hymns: AH 45a.56; 52.172. St. Firminus: 13.144. St. Fulgentius: 43.147. St. Servatius: 4.233. St. Ursula: 10.321. St. Willibald: 23.296.Google Scholar

192 St. Geminianus sequence: AH 37.173 (No. 196, strophe 6a).Google Scholar

193 St. Etto hymn: AH 52.172. On the motif: Saintyves, En marge (cit. supra n. 63) 27-33 et passim. Google Scholar

194 Cf. Saintyves, En marge 219-281; Delehaye, H., Cinq leçons sur la méthode hagiographique (Subsidia Hagiographica 21; Brussels 1934) 138; also (too recent to be considered here) Moretus Plantin, H., Les passions de saint Lucien et leurs dérivés céphalophoriques (Namur-Louvain-Paris 1954).Google Scholar

195 Cf. AH 11.209: Fert caput abscissum stadiis tribus haec ad asylum Petri vel Pauli, quo libat illud ibi. See Saintyves, , En marge 263, 270, 275, 525; Günter, Christliche Legende (cit. supra n. 45) 155.Google Scholar

196 Cf. AH 28.159: Quam post almam Ad vitae palmam Transtulit cum laetitia Capite secto Corpore erecto Ad Petri aedificia. Cf. Saintyves, En marge 250, 278, 526; Günter, Christliche Legende 155.Google Scholar

197 St. Benedict hymns: AH 40.152; 50.273; 19.88. St. Maurus: 12.190; 37.230; 9.226.Google Scholar

198 St. Francis of Assisi: AH 40.189; 10.175; 26.44. St. Jerome: 33.92.Google Scholar

199 Cf. Lietzmann, Petrus and Paulus 2 (cit. supra n. 47) 136; MacCulloch, J. A., Medieval Faith and Fable (London 1932) 89.Google Scholar

200 AH 40.283; 28.36.Google Scholar

201 Ibid. 29.148. Graesse, Legenda Aurea 196-197.Google Scholar

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203 St. Clement hymns: ibid. 27.145-146; 14a.128. Cf. Graesse, Legenda Aurea 784f.Google Scholar

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205 E.g. ‘Ad te cunctipotens’ (AH 7.205f.), ‘Alleluja festivum’ (34.258f.), ‘Alleluja nostra’ (9.240f.), ‘Almiflua turba’ (37.238), ‘Laudes Christo’ (34.260), ‘Pollet alma’ (9.241), ‘Pretiosa solemnitas’ (53.332), ‘Principis ecclesiarum’ (53.335f.), ‘Psallat vox’ (44.241f.), etc.Google Scholar

206 ‘O princeps apostolorum’ by Eusebius Bruno (d. 1081) (AH 48.82-83); ‘Apostolorum principem’ (23.259-260). Besides these, the St. Peter hymns in early Irish hymnody: ‘Audite fratres,’ ‘Sanctus Petrus,’ and ‘Sancte Petre’ (51.347-9, 349, 349f.). Cf. Kenney, J. F., The Sources for the Early History of Ireland I (New York 1929) 267 (No. 94), 670 (No. 524), 725 (No. 579 [xi]), 728 (No. 587).Google Scholar

207 A few examples: ‘Angelico fretus’ (AH 49.143), ‘Angelus excuteret’ (ibid. 146), ‘Petro ad ostium pulsanti’ (ibid. 10), the Prosula ‘Apostolorum princeps’ (47.291), etc.Google Scholar

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