HITTORP, MELCHIOR. - Liturgist, canon of St. Maria ad Gradus and from 1583 dean of the collegiate church of St. Cunibert, b. in Cologne ca. 1525, d. there in 1584.
At the suggestion of Jacobus Pamelius, in order to defend Catholic liturgical institutions against the criticisms of the innovators, he collected in De divinis catholicae Ecclesiae officiis et mysteriis varii vetustorum aliquot Ecclesiae Patrum ac scriptorum ecclesiasticorum libri (in-fol., Cologne 1568) the Ordo romanus and the works of a liturgical character by Isidore, Ps. Alcuin, Amalarius, Rabanus Maurus, Walafrid Strabo, Berno of Reichenau, the Micrologus, Ivo of Chartres, Hildebert, Radulf of Rivo, and a Carolingian Expositio Missae. The new edition prepared by G. Ferrari (Rome 1591) was enriched with seven other texts, among them the liturgical works of Peter Damian, Peter the Venerable, Honorius of Autun and Rupert of Deutz. This edition was then reproduced with some additions in vol. X of the Magna Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum of Margarin de la Bigne (Paris 1610). H.'s valuable collection remains the prototype of a corpus of liturgical works.
Bibliography5 worksHurter, III, coll. 357-58; F. Cabrol, Introduction aux études liturgiques, Paris 1907, pp. 43-45; M. Andrieu, Les Ordines Romanes du haus mo
BIBL.: Hurter, III, coll. 357-58; F. Cabrol, Introduction aux études liturgiques, Paris 1907, pp. 43-45; M. Andrieu, Les Ordines Romanes du haus moyen âge, Louvain 1931, pp. xv-xvi and passim; L. Eisenhofer, Handbuch der hath. Liturgik, I, Freiburg im Br. 1932, p. 136; W. Kosch, Das katholische Deutschland, I, Augsburg 1933, coll. 1616.
Frutaz, Amato Pietro. “Hittorp, melchior.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, coll. 1447–1448. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/hittorp-melchior.
MLA
Frutaz, Amato Pietro. “Hittorp, melchior.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, coll. 1447–1448. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/hittorp-melchior.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_hittorp_melchior,
author = {Frutaz, Amato Pietro},
title = {Hittorp, melchior},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1447--1448},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/hittorp-melchior}
}
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