pium dictamen

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The pium dictamen (plural pia dictamina), known in German as a Reimgebet or Leselied,Joseph Szövérffy, [https://www.persee.fr/doc/ccmed_0007-9731_1961_num_4_16_1203 "L'hymnologie médiévale: recherches et méthode"], Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 4.16 (1961): 389–422, at 390–391 (plurals Reimgebete and Leselieder). is a Christian hymn for private devotion, generally rhyming and often using acrostics.Christina E. A. Marshall, Late Medieval Liturgical Offices in Acrostic Form: A Catalogue and Study, PhD diss. (University of Toronto, 2006), p. 23 ("a paraliturgical genre of poetry for private devotion"). The genre is highly variable. It includes "psalters" (psalteria) with 150 strophes and "rosaries" (rosaria) with 50.[http://www.hymnology.co.uk/p/pia-dictamina "Pia dictamina"], in The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology (Canterbury Press, 2013), accessed 26 November 2022. Another type was the "gloss song" (Glossenlied, prière glosée), in which a popular prayer was divided up by word, with each word be "glossed" by a stanza of commentary. They were popular in both Latin and the vernacular and were sometimes multilingual.Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna and Levente Seláf, "Textsetting of Multilingual Poems: The Example of Bruder Hans' Ave Maria", in Teresa Proto, Paolo Canettieri and Gianluca Valenti (eds.), Text and Tune: On the Association of Music and Lyrics in Sung Verse (Peter Lang, 2015), pp. 111–127, at 114–115.

The hymn Stabat Mater was originally a pium dictamen.