Title Details
400 Pages
21.6 x 13.8 cm
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
Series Vol. Number:
113
Imprint: Henry Bradshaw Society
The Leofric Missal
I. Introduction, Collation Tables and Index
- Description
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New edition of, and commentary on, one of the most important liturgical books to have come down to us from the late Anglo-Saxon church.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 579, the so-called 'Leofric Missal', is for the most part not really a missal, but a late-ninth or early-tenth-century combined sacramentary, pontifical and ritual with cues for the sung parts of various masses by the original, possibly French or Lotharingian, scribe. Subsequently, over the course of a hundred and thirty or so years, the sacramentary-pontifical-ritual was considerably augmented, first most probably for thesuccessors of Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (890-923), the man for whom it was probably originally compiled, then later at Exeter for Bishop Leofric (1050-72).
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 579, the so-called 'Leofric Missal', is for the most part not really a missal, but a late-ninth or early-tenth-century combined sacramentary, pontifical and ritual with cues for the sung parts of various masses by the original, possibly French or Lotharingian, scribe. Subsequently, over the course of a hundred and thirty or so years, the sacramentary-pontifical-ritual was considerably augmented, first most probably for thesuccessors of Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (890-923), the man for whom it was probably originally compiled, then later at Exeter for Bishop Leofric (1050-72).
"A work of tremendous intelligence and discrimination.... An excellent edition and an extremely persuasive account of a complex but central document." SPECULUM
Paperback
9781783273485
October 2002
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9781870252171
October 2002
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Title Details
400 Pages
2.16 x 1.38 cm
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
Series Vol. Number:
113
Imprint: Henry Bradshaw Society