The Bobbio Missal
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384 Pages

21.6 x 14 cm

6 b/w illus.

Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Series Vol. Number: 58

Imprint: Henry Bradshaw Society

The Bobbio Missal

A Gallican Mass-Book (MS. Paris. Lat. 13246) Vols LVIII & LXI

by E.A. Lowe and William Wilson

Edited by E.A. Lowe, A. Wilmart and William Wilson

  • Description
The Bobbio Missal is one of the most important and interesting liturgical books surviving from the early middle ages. It is the best known example of the `Gallican' type of missal, attesting therefore to the distinctive liturgicalpractices which were widespread in Merovingian and Frankish churches during the seventh and eighth centuries, before these began to tbe replaced by the Roman practices including use of `Gregorian' missals in various forms duringthe period of Charlemagne's reforms. In the opinion of modern palaeographers, the Bobbio Missal was written somewhere in northern Italy in the mid-eighth century. Although it was long regarded as a witness to Irish liturgical practice, it is now considered as essentially Gallican, but incorporating various prayers of Gelasian origin. Palaeographically the manuscript (now Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, lat. 13246) is of great interest, being written in anidiosyncratic mixture of uncial and minuscule, by an Italian scribe neither literate nor well-trained. HBS LVIII, HBSLXI

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Title Details

384 Pages

2.16 x 1.4 cm

6 b/w illus.

Series: Henry Bradshaw Society

Series Vol. Number: 58

Imprint: Henry Bradshaw Society