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433 sq. ; Gieseler, Leh?-b. d. Kirchengesch. (Bonn, 1855), iii, 2, 592; llerzog, Jieal-Iuicyklop. s. v.
Ur'bane [some Ur'bane, others Urba'ne] or rather Ukban (i)vpfiav6c, (ira'cized from the Lat. Urhamm, i. e. of the citi/, or urban), a Christian at Home saUited by Paul as having been his associate in labor ( roj' cin'tpvi' I'lfiwi' ii' Xpianp) in the list of those atldressed (^Kom. xvi, 9). A.L). 55.
Urbaneiises, one of the numerous small sects of the Donatists in Numidia, mentioned by Augustine (Crescoii/. iv, 70).
Urbanis, (iiri-io, an Italian painter, of San Daniel- lo, studied witii Pom[ioneo Amalteo, and followed his manner. Lanzi mentions a fresco by him at San Da- jiiello representing the Virgin icilh the Infaat Christ, seated upon a throne, surrounded by Thomas the apos- tle, Valentine, and other saints, signed "Opus Julii Ur- banis, 1574." See S|)ooner, Biog. Hist, of Fine A its, s. v.
Urbino, Salomon ben-Abkaham, a Jewish writer who flourished in 1480, is the author of a lexicon on the synonyms of the Old Test. 'entitled ~t"'2 br\Mi,The Tabernacle of the Congregation,\n allusion to Exod.xxxiii, 7, " because therein are congregated expressions which differ in sound, but are like in sense" (p'^Z IP'TI T^"2
psbnr.73 rsri rns njcnn^ Dir.rn ]->h^h nri).
The synonyms are divided into groups, the alphabetical order of which is determined by its most important word. Eacli group commences with the formula
n-'^nb nn:-in ncx nirn, i.e. the word which is
put down is to teach, being made up from the abbrevi- ation of the title of the work, viz. bnxn, and is illus- trated by quotations from the Old Test, and the corre- sponding passages from the Targum, as well as by quo- tations from Saadia Gaon's Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, the works of Dunash ibn-Librat. Hai (iaon, Ibn-Ganach, Ibn-Giath, Nathan ben-.Jechiel,Ibii-Balaam, Nachraanides, Ibn-Saruk, etc. The lexicon was pub- lished at Venice in 1548, and is now very rare. See Flirst, Bibl. Jiid. iii, 461 ; De' Eossi, Dizionario Storico, p. 323 (Germ, transl.) ; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Hebr. in Bibl. Bodl. p. 2391 ; Kitto, Cyclop, s. v. ; Geiger, in Zeitschrift der dentsch. morgenl. Gesellsch. (Leips. 1863), xvi), 321 ; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i, 1037, etc. (B. P.)
Urbs Beata Hierusalem. This rugged but fine old hymn, composed in dedicatione ecclesicf, and of which the author is not known, belongs to the 8th or 9th cen- tury. Trench calls it "a hymn of degrees ascending from things earthly to things heavenly, and making the first to be interpreters of the last. The prevailing intention in the building and the dedication of a church, with the rites thereto appertaining, was to carry up men's thoughts from that temple built with hands, which they saw, to that other built of living stones in heaven, of which this was but a weak shadow." This tine hymn, the first lines of which run thus,
" Urbs be;ita Hierusalem, dicta panels visio, Quse conslniilur in coelis vivis ex lapidihus, Et ab angelis ornata, velut si)onsa nobilis: Nova veiiieus e coelo, nuptiali thalamo PriepaiMta, ut sponsata copuletur Domino; Plaieae et niurl ejus ex auro purissimo,"
has proved the source of manifold inspiration in circles bej-oud its own. To it we owe the
"Jerusalem, ray happy home ;" or the same in a less common but still more beautiful form,
"O mother, dear Jerusalem !"
It has also inspired some of the singers of Protestant Germany. In the (ierman language we have two noble hymns which at least had their first motive here. The one is that by Meyfahrt,
" Jerusalem, du hocbgebautc Stadt;" the other by Kosegarten,
"Stadt Gottes, deren diamaut'nen Ring."
In English our hvmn is found in Lgra Mystica (Lond. 1869), V 409 :
" Blessed city, holy Salem, Home of peace, by seers descried; Kisir.g in the courts of heaven, Built of living stones and tried ; By angelic hands adorned, As her fellows deck a bride. Coming newly formed ffom heaven, Keady for the nui)ti:il bower, Wedded to the Lamb forever, As a bride in blissful hour. All her streets have golden pavement, Golden ramparts rouud her tower,"' etc.
Our hymn has been translated into (Jerman by Schlos- ser, Simrock, Kambach, and others. The original is given by Trench, Sacred Latin Poetry, p. 311 ; Biissler, .4 uswahl altchristlicher Licder, p. 201 ; Kambach, Antho- logie christl. Gesdnge, p. 179 ; Simrock, Lauda Sion, p. 322. (B. P.)
Urd, in Norse mythology, was the destiny of the past, who, with her two sisters, Waranda and Skuld, sits inider the tree Ygdrasil, where they daily receive ad- vice.
Urdaborn, in Norse mythology, is the spring of the past, at which the three deities sit ; from which clear spring they daily draw for themselves new wisdom, and with whose waters they moisten the roots of the tree Ygdrasil.
Urgel, Council of. Seo de Urgel is a city of Spain on a plain among the Pyrenees, containing an ancient cathedral and other ecclesiastical buildings. A council was held here in 799 by Leidrade, archbishop of Lyons, whom Charlemagne had sent, together with Ne- fridius of Narbonne, the abbot Benedict, and several oth- er bishops and abbots, to Felix, bishop of Urgel. They succeeded in persuading him to present himself to the king, promising him full liberty to produce in his pres- ence those passages from the fathers which he believed to favor his notions. — Landon, Manual of Councils, s. v.