Antique "Gloria in Excelsis!" Print in Giltwood Frame w/matte mid-19th Century

Description

Antique Print
"Gloria in excelsis"
(Latin for "Glory to God in the highest")
Frame Dimensions: 12 1/2" by 20"
Framers Sticker on Back:
Fine Arts
A.D. Vorce & Co.
276 Main St.
Hartford, Connecticut
Historical Description of the term:
Gloria in excelsis Deo
"Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest") is a hymn known also as the Greater Doxology (as distinguished from the "Minor Doxology" or Gloria Patri) and the Angelic Hymn.The name is often abbreviated to Gloria in Excelsis or simply Gloria.
The hymn begins with the words that the angels sang when the birth of Christ was announced to shepherds in Luke 2:14. Other verses were added very early, forming doxology.[3]History
It is an example of the psalmiidiotici ("private psalms", i.e. compositions by individuals in imitation of the biblical Psalter) that were popular in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Other surviving examples ofthis lyric poetry are the Te Deumand the Phos Hilaron. In the 4thcentury it became part of morning prayers, and is still recited in the Byzantine Rite Orthros service.
The Latin translation is traditionally attributed to Saint Hilary ofPoitiers (c. 300–368), who may have learned it while in the East (359–360). The Vulgate Latin translation of the Bible was commissioned only in 382.The Latin hymn thus uses the word excelsis to translate the Greek word ὑψίστοις(the highest) in Luke 2:14, not the word altissimis, which Saint Jerome preferred for his translation. (See wikipedia for more)
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