Enciclopedia Cattolica

Abecedaries

ABECEDARI

Volume I · p. 61 · 1948

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

ABECEDARIA. - Poetic compositions in which the verses and stanzas begin according to the letters of the alphabet in their natural sequence.

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We already have examples of these in Hebrew poetry (Lam. 1-4; Ps. 33; 36; 118; Prov. 31, 10-31). Among early Christian authors, we find them in Commodian (Instruct., I, 35; II, 19; CSEL, XV, [1887]), in Sedulius, with the hymn

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“ABECEDARI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 61. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/abecedari.