Pium dictamen
The pium dictamen (plural pia dictamina), known in German as a Reimgebet or Leselied,[1] is a Christian hymn for private devotion, generally rhyming and often using acrostics.[2] The genre is highly variable. It includes "psalters" (psalteria) with 150 strophes and "rosaries" (rosaria) with 50.[1][3] Another type was the "gloss song" (Glossenlied, prière glosée), in which a popular prayer was divided up by word, with each word be "glossed" by a stanza of commentary. They were popular in both Latin and the vernacular and were sometimes multilingual.[4]
The hymn Stabat Mater was originally a pium dictamen.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Joseph Szövérffy, "L'hymnologie médiévale: recherches et méthode", Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 4.16 (1961): 389–422, at 390–391 (plurals Reimgebete and Leselieder).
- ^ Christina E. A. Marshall, Late Medieval Liturgical Offices in Acrostic Form: A Catalogue and Study, PhD diss. (University of Toronto, 2006), p. 23 ("a paraliturgical genre of poetry for private devotion").
- ^ "Pia dictamina", in The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology (Canterbury Press, 2013), accessed 26 November 2022.
- ^ Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna and Levente Seláf, "Textsetting of Multilingual Poems: The Example of Bruder Hans' Ave Maria", in Teresa Proto, Paolo Canettieri and Gianluca Valenti (eds.), Text and Tune: On the Association of Music and Lyrics in Sung Verse (Peter Lang, 2015), pp. 111–127, at 114–115.
Further reading
[edit]- Christina Lechtermann, "Commentary as Literature: The Medieval Glossenlied", in Christina Lechtermann and Markus Stock (eds.), Theories and Practices of Commentary (Vittorio Klostermann, 2020), pp. 160–180.