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Note to Anon Alpost 1VII

[5] yfirpostula ‘chief Apostle’: A reference to Peter’s traditional title princeps apostolorum; cf. Anon Pét 27/1-2: princeps ... postulanna and the antiphon: Tu es pastor ovium, princeps apostolorum ‘You are the shepherd of the sheep, chief of the Apostles’ sung at the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul (29 June; CAO III, 513 no. 5207; cf. Ordo Nidr. 319, 358, 360, 374; Gjerløw 1961, 137; Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: princeps III.A.2.c [1287/75-88/1] apostolorum ... [de Petro]).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. CAO = Hesbert, Renato-Joanne, ed. 1963-79. Corpus antiphonalium officii. 6 vols. Rerum ecclesiasticarum documenta, series maior, Fontes 7-12. Rome: Casa Editrice Herder.
  3. Gjerløw, Lilli. 1961. Adoratio Crucis: The Regularis concordia and The Decreta Lanfranci: Manuscript studies in the early medieval church of Norway. Oslo and Boston: Norwegian Universities Press.
  4. Internal references
  5. David McDougall (ed.) 2007, ‘Anonymous Poems, Pétrsdrápa 27’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry on Christian Subjects. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 7. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 819-20.

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