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Ave! Colenda Trinitas

An 11th-century Latin Holy Trinity hymn translated by J. D. Chambers as "All hail, adored Trinity".

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Ave! Colenda Trinitas. [Holy Trinity.] This hymn, of unknown authorship, is given in the Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, London, 1851, p. 146, from a Durham MS. of the 11th century. It is also in a MS. of the 11th century in the British Museum (Jul. A. vi. f. 71); and in Biggs's Annotated Hymns Ancient & Modern, No. 132.

Translation in Common Use:
All hail, adored Trinity. By J. D. Chambers, in his Lauda Syon, pt. i., 1857, p. 218, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and from thence into Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861; the Hymnary, 1872; Snepp's Songs of Grace and Glory, 1872; and others, usually with slight alterations.

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