The Westminster Missal
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1109 Pages

21.6 x 13.8 cm

8 b/w, 12 line illus.

Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Series Vol. Number: 1

Imprint: Henry Bradshaw Society

The Westminster Missal

[Missale ad usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis]

Edited by J. Wickham Legg

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Missal text with notes and commentary: a fundamental tool for the study of both insular and continental medieval mass-books.

The manuscript edited in these volumes is a fine and elaborate missal of Westminster Abbey, given by Nicholas Lytlington (abbot 1362-1386) and often referred to by his name. As well as its importance as a particularly full missaltext from a royal abbey (it includes an extensive coronation ritual), it is also the only monastic representative of a `Sarum' type of sacramentary to have received a modern edition. John Wickham Legg's publication of this manuscript was an early milestone in the Henry Bradshaw Society programme, and is particularly notable for its extensive critical notes: employing over fifty other manuscripts, as well as printed sources, Legg provided a commentary whichgives an extraordinarily comprehensive view of texts for the celebration of mass in the middle ages. His work remains, over a century after its publication, a fundamental and indispensible tool for the study of medieval mass-books, both insular and continental. Reissue; First published 1891, 1895 and 1897 in three separate volumes.

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9781783273430

January 1891

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Title Details

1109 Pages

2.16 x 1.38 cm

8 b/w, 12 line illus.

Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Series Vol. Number: 1

Imprint: Henry Bradshaw Society