All Hail, Adored Trinity

Translator: John David Chambers

Chambers, John David, M.A., F.S.A., son of Captain Chambers of the R. N., was born in London in 1805, and educated at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with honours, in 1827 (M.A. 1831). He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1831. In 1842 he published an elaborate treatise on the Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery over the persons and property of Infants, and was appointed Recorder of New Sarum the same year. At Salisbury his attention was specially attracted to the Liturgical and other Ecclesiastical lore appertaining to the Cathedral, and to St. Osmund, its Bishop, 1078. St. Osmund compiled from different sources a series of Divine Offices, and Rules for their celebration within his diocese. These Rules were in two parts, t… Go to person page >

Ave! Colenda Trinitas. [Holy Trinity.] This hymn, of unknown authorship, is given in the Latin Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Lond., 1851, p. 146, from a Durham manuscript of the 11th century. It is also in a manuscript of the 11th century, in the British Museum (Jul. A. vi. f. 71); and in Biggs's Annotated Hymns Ancient and Modern, No. 132. It is translated as:—
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 and Modern 1861; the Hymnary1872, Snepp's Songs of Grace and Glory, 1872, and others, usually with slight alterations.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)