| [124] _Guill. de Nang._ loc. cit. | | | | [125] _Albert. Argentinens._ loc. cit. | | | | [126] We meet with fragments of different lengths in the Chronicles | | of the times, but the only entire MS. which we possess, is in the | | valuable Library of President _von Meusebach_. _Massmann_ has had | | this printed, accompanied by a translation, entitled _Erläuterungen | | zum Wessobrunner Gebet des_ 8^{ten} _Jahrhunderts. Nebst_ ZWEIEN | | _noch ungedruckten_, GEDICHTEN DES VIERZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS, | | Berlin, 1824. “Elucidations of the Wessobrunn Prayer of the 8th | | century, together with two unpublished Hymns the 14th century.” | | We shall subjoin it at the end of this Treatise, as a striking | | document of the age. The Limburg Chronicle asserts, indeed, that it | | was not composed till that time, although a part, if not the whole, | | of it, was sung in the procession of the Flagellants, in 1260.—See | | Incerti auctoris Chronicon rerum per Austriam Vicinasque regiones | | gestarum inde ab anno 1025, usque ad annum 1282. Munich, 1827 8, p. | | 9. | | | | [127] _Trithem._ Annal. Hirsaugiens, T. II. p. 206. | | | | [128] He issued a bull against them, Oct. 20, 1349. _Raynald. | | Trithem._ loc. cit. | | | | [129] But as they at last ceased to excite astonishment, were no | | longer welcomed by the ringing of bells, and were not received with | | veneration, as before, they vanished as human imaginations are wont | | to do. Saxon Chronicle, by _Matt. Dresseren_. Wittenberg, 1596, | | fol. p. 340, 341. | | | | [130] _Albert. Argentinens._ loc. cit. | | | | [131] _Guillelm. de Nangis._ | | | | [132] _Ditmar._ loc. cit. | | | | [133] _Klose_ of Breslaw’s Documental History and Description, 8vo. | | Vol. II. p. 190. Breslaw, 1781. | | | | [134] Limburg Chronicle, p. 17. |