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John Michael Beers

A Commentary on the Cistercian Hymnal

$65.00

This anonymous Commentary is printed from Troyes, Bibl. munic. 658, a manuscript written at Clairvaux in the late 12th century.It is well known that St Bernard in 1147 revised the monastic hymnal for the use of his Cistercian monks; the anonymous Explanatio is primary evidence for the content of Bernard's hymnal. It is also an invaluable index of Cistercian spirituality in the late 12th century, and provides an index of the range of reading of a Cistercianscholar of that time.

G.G. Willis

A History of Early Roman Liturgy

$60.00

The definitive guide to the development of early Roman liturgy by one of the twentieth century's great liturgical scholars.

The liturgy which developed at Rome during the early centuries of the Christian era was to establish the pattern for religious observance in the Latin West from the sixth century to the twentieth. Yet, for a variety of reasons, the origins and early development of this liturgy are far from clear. Evidence must be teased out of the various incidental references to be found in the writings of the early Church Fathers; Hippolytus, Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustineand ultimately Gregory the Great.
In this book the late G.G. Willis draws on a lifetime's intimate knowledge of the liturgical evidence for early Roman practice in order to present a refreshingly clear guide to the early Roman liturgy - a subject for which there exists no accessible introduction in English. He provides a new synthesis of the most significant developments in the form of the Roman mass, calendar, episcopal services, rites of baptism andordination up to the time of Gregory the Great (590-604).

Bernard James Muir

A Pre Conquest English Prayer-Book

$75.00

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Beate Günzel

Aelfwine's Prayerbook

$75.00

The Henry Bradshaw Society's policy of presenting integral editions of rare liturgical manuscripts is a reflection of the fact that, before the invention of printing, service books varied widely from country to country, from church to church, and even from individual book to individual book, with the result that surviving medieval liturgical manuscripts are usually unique entities which can profitably be studies as a reflection of the local circumstances (and frequently of the particular individuals) which produced them. This is especially true in the case of private prayerbooks, where each manuscript embodies the interests and spiritual concerns of the patron who commissioned it or the scribe who compiled and copies it. The present edition of 'Ælfwine's Prayerbook' (which was originally produced as a doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professor Helmut Gneuss, one of the Society's distinguishedVice-Presidents), by Beate Günzel, is a splendid manifestation of the intellectual and spiritual interests of a dean who serves the community of the New Minster in Winchester during the first half of the eleventh century, and hence of the clear light which liturgical manuscripts can shed on the literary culture of later Anglo-Saxon England. It was is issued to members for the year 1992.

Michael Lapidge

Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints

$75.00

Most of these litanies, taken from nearly fifty manuscripts written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England, have never previously been printed. The texts of the litanies provide an indispensable resource for scholars seeking to understand the spirituality of Anglo-Saxon England, to localise the manuscript in which the litanies are contained, and to trace the development and diffusion of eary medieval saints' cults. The volume is accompanied by comprehensive indices of all the saints named in the litanies here printed, and of all the liturgical forms of prayer which they contain. It also includes an extensive introduction which traces the origin and development of this particular form of prayer in Anglo-Saxon England.MICHAEL LAPIDGEis Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge.

Daniel J DiCenso

Chant, Liturgy, and the Inheritance of Rome

$85.00

The influence of Rome on medieval plainsong and liturgy explored in depth.

Containing substantial new studies in music, liturgy, history, art history, and palaeography from established and emerging scholars, this volume takes a cross-disciplinary approach to one of the most celebrated and vexing questions about plainsong and liturgy in the Middle Ages: how to understand the influence of Rome? Some essays address this question directly, examining Roman sources, Roman liturgy, or Roman practice, whilst others consider the sway ofRome more indirectly, by looking later sources, received practices, or emerging traditions that owe a foundational debt to Rome.

Daniel J. DiCenso is Assistant Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross; Rebecca Maloy is Professor of Musicology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Contributors: Charles M. Atkinson, Rebecca A. Baltzer, James Borders, Susan Boynton, Catherine Carver, Daniel J. DiCenso, David Ganz, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, David Hiley, Emma Hornby, Thomas Forrest Kelly, William Mahrt, Charles B. McClendon, Luisa Nardini, Edward Nowacki , Christopher Page, Susan Rankin, John F. Romano, Mary E. Wolinski

Chant, Liturgy, and the Inheritance of Rome

J. Wickham Legg

Cranmer's Liturgical Projects

$75.00

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Francis Wormald MA FSA

English Benedictine Kalendars After A. D. 1100

$75.00

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Frances Wormald

English Benedictine Kalendars After A.D. 1100

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Edited by David Pratt

English Coronation Ordines in the Ninth and Early Tenth Centuries

$85.00

New editions and translations of the two earliest texts for the rite of royal anointing in Anglo-Saxon England.

This volume provides new editions and translations of the two earliest texts for the rite of royal anointing in Anglo-Saxon England. The First Ordo, believed to go back to the ninth century, perhaps even a little before, is the earliest surviving coronation liturgy from anywhere in the West. The compilation of the Second English Ordo has been assigned to the late ninth or early tenth century. David Pratt's edition and translation presents this extremely important material in a scholarly but fully accessible way for the first time. New editions are desirable, not only for the intrinsic value of scrutinizing the text and transmission history of both ordines, but for the light which can be cast on the early history of the rite of royal anointing in England. That history is a subject which unfortunately cannot be studied with reference to any single, authoritative manuscript, but must rather be explored comparatively, by looking across the manuscript record of later Anglo-Saxon and Frankish pontificals, and by identifying patterns of development.

English Coronation <i>Ordines</i> in the Ninth and Early Tenth Centuries

Francis Wormald

English Kalendars

$75.00

English Kalendars before A.D. 1100contains full editionf of twenty Anglo-Saxon liturgical Kalendars. Because it was the nature of each Church's kalendar to reflect the individual feasts and saints which were venerated at that church, kalendars are invariably the most precious witnesses to the worship of individual Anglo-Saxon churches. Furthermore, because the individual feasts and saints often permit the localisation of manuscript-kalendars, and because these kalendars are usually accompanied by computistical tables which permit them to be dated, they are the bedrock upon which the dating and localisation of all Anglo-Saxon manuscripts is based. And because they usually attracted the recording of obits of important men and women in their margins, kalendars are an important source of information for historians.

Nigel J. Morgan

English Monastic Litanies of the Saints after 1100

$65.00

Edition of rare surviving litanies from the middle ages, providing evidence for monastic worship.

The litanies of the monastic orders in England, above all those of the Benedictines, are key witnesses of devotion to the saints of the British Isles, whose relics and shrines were mostly in Benedictine abbeys and cathedral priories. However, although many of the calendars of the Benedictines have been published, litanies are more rare, and the majority of those within this volume are presented as text editions for the first time. The majority of the textsare Benedictine, but the few surviving litanies from the other monastic orders, Carthusians, Cistercians and Cluniacs, are included, and also those of the Order of Fontevrault.
This volume, the second of a set of three, contains the litanies from the Cluniac Priory of Pontefract to York, St Mary's Abbey.

Nigel Morgan is Honorary Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

Nigel J. Morgan

English Monastic Litanies of the Saints after 1100

$85.00

Offers a comprehensive catalogue of all the saints appearing in the monastic litanies, from Abro to Yvo.

The litanies of the monastic orders in England, above all those of the Benedictines, are key witnesses of devotion to the saints of the British Isles, whose relics and shrines were mostly in Benedictine abbeys and cathedral priories. However, although many of the calendars of the Benedictines have been published, litanies are more rare, and the majority of those within this volume are presented as text editions for the first time. The majority of the textsare Benedictine, but the few surviving litanies from the other monastic orders, Carthusians, Cistercians and Cluniacs, are included, and also those of the Order of Fontevrault.
This volume, the final in a set of three, contains a complete catalogue of all the saints mentioned in the litanies, providing such information as their miracles, their resting-place, and their origins. It also provides full indices to all three volumes.

Nigel Morgan is Honorary Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

J. Wickham Legg

English Orders for Consecrating Churches

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English Orders for Consecrating Churches

John Toy

English Saints in the Medieval Liturgies of Scandinavian Churches

$110.00

Evidence of the spread of the cults of English saints in medieval Scandinavia is revealed by detailed detective work in fragmentary manuscripts.

The process of Christianising the Scandinavian countries in the tenth to the thirteenth centuries was spearheaded in the earliest phases by missionaries from Anglo-Saxon England. It is likely that such missionaries took with themthe books that would have been essential for church services - Bibles, Gospel-books, Psalters, Breviaries - along with saints' relics, thus introducing the cults of the saints venerated at the time in England. A remarkable quantity of mainly fragmentary manuscripts have survived from this activity and from Scandinavia manuscripts produced in imitation of the imports. Almost all of them were gathered together at the Reformation as redundant and used mainlyto provide covers and bindings for provincial accounts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they are preserved largely in the National Archives in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. Materials for some seventy-fourEnglish saints are recorded in this volume, giving an idea of the extent of their presence in the liturgies of medieval Scandinavia. They include all occurrences of the saints in surviving liturgical calendars, martyrologies, missals, breviaries, etc; where the texts are not otherwise attested, they are reproduced in full. It will be an essential point of reference for all scholars working on the English saints and on the spread of Christianity in the middle ages.

English Saints in the Medieval Liturgies of Scandinavian Churches

E.C. Ratcliff

Expositio Antiquae Liturgiae Gallicanae

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E.S. Dewick

Facsimiles of Horae de Beata Maria Virgine

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Facsimiles of Horae de Beata Maria Virgine

A.E. Burn

Facsimiles of the Creeds

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Pádraig O Riain

Four Irish Martyrologies

$49.95

A source of outstanding importance for the study of the early Irish church. This edition presents all martyrologies not previously printed, all descendants in some way of the 'Martyrology of Óengus'.

Among the positive effects of the English Conquest of Ireland in the late twelfth century was the stimulus it gave to the writing of the records of the Irish saints. All four martyrologies edited in this volume arguably date to the period immediately after the Conquest, when the Irish Church, faced with accusations of backwardness and irregularity, was at pains to demonstrate its modernity and orthodoxy. This was achieved by drawing on such external sources as the Martyrology of Ado, 'wedding' it to such native sources as the Martyrology of aengus. Judging by the text of the Martyrology of Drummond, Armagh played a pivotal role in the liturgical 'revival' reflected by all four texts. Use of the annotated version of the Martyrology of aengus prepared at Armagh about 1170-74 can be detected in three of the four texts.

J.B.L. Tolhurst

Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries

$65.00

A guide to breviaries (monastic service books containing the Divine Office) in late medieval England.

During the Middle Ages, the Divine Office, or daily round of prayers, formed the central focus of the monastic life. The liturgical book which contained all the prayers, hymns, etc. which were said at each office during the year is the breviary. The present volume is widely acknowledged as the best introduction available in English to the complex structure of the Office. Initially the Benedictine Office is considered, followed by an assessment of the numerous additions and alterations which occured during the early medieval period. To conclude there is a detailed discussion of the structure of various individual offices in late medieval England as they are known from surviving breviaries. Throughout, the language has been kept plain and non-technical to make it accessible to all students of the middle ages.

Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries

Walter Ullmann

Liber Regie Capelle

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A. Jefferies Collins

Manuale Ad Vsum: Percelebris Ecclesie Sarisburiensis

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Manuale Ad Vsum: Percelebris Ecclesie Sarisburiensis

Dom Philip Jebb

Missale de Lesnes

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Henry Marriott Bannister

Missale Gothicum I

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Henry Marriott Bannister

Missale Gothicum II

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Robert Lippe

Missale Romanum

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Robert Lippe

Missale Romanum, Mediolani, 1474, Vol. II.

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Missale Romanum, Mediolani, 1474, Vol. II.

Dom C Lambot

North Italian Services of the Eleventh Century

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North Italian Services of the Eleventh Century

Henrico Austin Wilson

Officium Ecclesiasticum Abbatum

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G H Doble, C W Surrey

Ordinale Exon.

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John Neale Dalton

Ordinale Exoni. Volume I

$75.00

The Exeter Ordinale is a huge ordinal issued by John de Grandisson, bishop of Exeter [1327-69], in 1337; it is edited on the basis of manuscripts that belonged to, and were annotated by, the bishop himself. The compilationmarked an important point in medieval study of the liturgy, and the Legenda [liturgical readings for saints' days] which it contains are regarded as one of the most important sources for the study of English medieval hagiography, particularly for saints of English origin.

John Neale Dalton

Ordinale Exoni. Volume II

$60.00

The Exeter Ordinale is a huge ordinal issued by John de Grandisson, bishop of Exeter [1327-69], in 1337; it is edited on the basis of manuscripts that belonged to, and were annotated by, the bishop himself. The compilationmarked an important point in medieval study of the liturgy, and the Legenda [liturgical readings for saints' days] which it contains are regarded as one of the most important sources for the study of English medieval hagiography, particularly for saints of English origin.

John Neale Dalton

Ordinale Exoniense III: Appendix

$75.00

The Exeter Ordinale is a huge ordinal issued by John de Grandisson, bishop of Exeter [1327-69], in 1337; it is edited on the basis of manuscripts that belonged to, and were annotated by, the bishop himself. The compilationmarked an important point in medieval study of the liturgy, and the Legenda [liturgical readings for saints' days] which it contains are regarded as one of the most important sources for the study of English medieval hagiography, particularly for saints of English origin.

Christoper Wordsworth

Ordinale Sarum

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Christopher Wordsworth

Ordinale Sarum, sive Directorium Sacerdotum

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Ordinale Sarum, sive Directorium Sacerdotum

Henry Bradshaw Society

Ordines of Haymo of Faversham

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Susan Twyman

Papal Ceremonial at Rome in the Twelfth Century

$75.00

An examination of the papal adventus ceremony, deriving from the ritual reception performed for the ruler in antiquity, and the changes it underwent during the century.

This book examines the character and significance of the adventus ceremonies which were accorded to medieval popes and for which there is much evidence in the twelfth-century sources. The papal adventus, hitherto unstudied in anylanguage, retained the framework and much of the familiar symbolism of the ritual reception performed for the ruler in antiquity. During the twelfth century it was performed for popes with unprecedented frequency, providing, in particular, a vital part of the papal accession ritual. On such occasions adventus represented a demonstration of consent to rule, a sense that was expressed through traditional idioms evoking the triumph of the ruler. But the meaning of the ritual altered towards the end of the century as a result of the breakdown of relations between the papacy and the Romans, and the adventus provided an opportunity for the Romans to express their own agenda wherein consent meant the right of acceptance or veto by the people.

Dr SUSAN TWYMAN teaches in the Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, London University.

Papal Ceremonial at Rome in the Twelfth Century

G.H. Doble

Pontificale Lanaletense

$65.00

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G. Richter, A. Schonfelder

Sacramentarium Fuldense Saeculi X

$49.95

A photographic reprint of the rare edition,first published in 1912, of the `Fulda Sacramentary' (Gottingen, UB, Cod. theol. 231), a 10th-century manuscript written at Fulda which represents a distinct recension of the Gregorian Sacramentary, possibly connected with the scholarly activities of Hrabanus Maurus (d.856). The Fulda Sacramentary was richly illuminated; it is also a rich repository of prayers and mass formulas, and its ample contents include aprayer in Old High German.

Rebecca Rushforth

Saints in English Kalendars before AD 1100

$85.00

Edition of Anglo-Saxon kalendars reveals much about the history of the period.

The surviving Anglo-Saxon Kalendars are not only valuable evidence for the cults of particular saints; they also help to date and localise the manuscripts in which they are found, providing important information for the palaeographer and cultural historian. This volume collates the texts of twenty-seven such kalendars, written or owned in England before 1100, into monthly tables to allow easy comparison of which saints are included and to give a sense of how rare a particular feast was. It also has an introduction to the use of kalendars in the study of Anglo-Saxon England, and a discussion and bibliography of each kalendar manuscript. An index of names allows easy discovery of variant feast days for the same saint.

Dr REBECCA RUSHFORTH is Research Associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge.

Saints in English Kalendars before AD 1100

Calvin M. Bower

The Liber Ymnorum of Notker Balbulus

$180.00

First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece.

Winner of the Palisca Prize by the American Musicological Society, 2017

These two volumes present an important and distinctive collection of Carolingian poetry, composed for the liturgy in the last quarter of the ninth century by Notker Balbulus ("the stammerer"), monk of St Gall (d. 912). Notker was not the first liturgical composer inspired by the Carolingian renaissance of learning to make new texts for elaborate Alleluia melodies, but hewas certainly the first to raise the sequence genre to a consistently refined linguistic and theological level, and to provide a repertory for the annual cycle of holy feasts. His collection circulated widely in Germanic areas inthe tenth and eleventh centuries, while some of his compositions - such as Sancti spiritus - became staples throughout Europe.
Notker's Liber ymnorum has never before been edited with the melodies after which his sequences were fashioned and to which they were sung. Provided here is a full edition of Notker's dedicatory preface, followed by 49 sequences. Each sequence is presented with two musical notations ("Carolingian", in neumes, and pitched on staves), followed by translations and an extensive commentary. A full introduction provides a context for the work.

The <I>Liber Ymnorum</I> of Notker Balbulus

John Wickham Legg

The Processional of the Nuns of Chester, Edited from a Manuscript in the possession of the Earl of Ellesmere at Bridgewater House

$65.00

This manuscript, now now Huntington Library, MS EL 34 B 7, contains a fifteenth- century Latin text interesting for its admixture of English rubrics, as well as prayers and hymns. Chester was in the Lichfield diocese, and thus inthe Province of Canterbury, so it is no surprise that the text is closer to Sarum than York usage.

The <I>Processional</I> of the Nuns of Chester, Edited from a Manuscript in the possession of the Earl of Ellesmere at Bridgewater House

F.E. Warren

The Antiphonary of Bangor

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F.E. Warren

The Antiphonary of Bangor

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Anselm Hughes

The Bec Missal

$75.00

The MSS, from the abbey of Bec (Le Bec-Hellouin), written c. 1265-1272 is not strictly a missal, since it lacks an ordo missae and the canon, but in other respects it is close to a missale plenum in its contents, though it includes all the chants. It may have been a precentor's book, but equally well may have been designed for use of the altar. The plainchant melodies are not reproduced here. The English interest of Bec, home to Lanfranc and Anselm, archbishops of Canterbury, and with other strong cross-channel connections, is obvious.

H.A. Wilson

The Benedictional of Archbishop Robert

$75.00

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Reginald Maxwell Woolley

The Benedictional of John Longlonde

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Robert Amiet

The Benedictionals of Freising

$65.00

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E.A. Lowe

The Bobbio Missal

$75.00

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

Elias Avery Lowe

The Bobbio Missal, A Gallican Mass-Book (MS. Paris. Lat. 13246) Facsimile, London, 1917.

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The Bobbio Missal, A Gallican Mass-Book (MS. Paris. Lat. 13246) Facsimile, London, 1917.

A. Jefferies Collins

The Brigittine Breviary of Syon Abbey

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H.A. Wilson

The Calendar of St. Willibrord

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Reginald Maxwell Woolley

The Canterbury Benedictional British Museum Harl. MS. 2892

$60.00

Record of liturgical observances at Canterbury in 11c, including valuable full record of the cult of saints there in the last days of the Anglo-Saxon church.

The benedictional was a bishop's book, containing the prayers which only a bishop (or archbishop) could pronounce when he said mass, characteristically a lavish production. Several have survived from Anglo-Saxon England and thesehave recently been attracting the attention of liturgists and palaeographers. One of the most important is the `Canterbury Benedictional', now London, British Library, Harley 2892, written at Christ Church, Canterbury, around themiddle of the eleventh century. The `Canterbury Benedictional' provides a valuable record of liturgical observance at the seat of the English archbishop. In particular, it gives a full record of the cult of saints at the metropolitan see in the last days of the Anglo-Saxon church. The Latin text is accompanied by an introduction and detailed liturgical notes in which the relationships between the surviving Anglo-Saxon benedictionals and their continental antecedents are set out for the first time. The book will be of interest to students of the medieval liturgy, and to historians of the Anglo-Saxon church. First published 1917.

The Canterbury Benedictional British Museum Harl. MS. 2892

J. Wickham Legg

The Clerk's Book of 1549

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Thomas Robert Gambier-Parry

The Colbertine Breviary Volume II, Edited from the Copy in the British Museum (C.35.f.21).

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The Colbertine Breviary Volume II, Edited from the Copy in the British Museum (C.35.f.21).

Thomas Robert Gambier-Parry

The Colbertine Breviary, Edited from the copy in the British Museum (C.35.f.21).

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The Colbertine Breviary, Edited from the copy in the British Museum (C.35.f.21).

Antonia Gransden

The Customary of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk

$60.00

The customary, edited here from British Library harley 1005, was composed at Bury St Edmunds in the first half of the 13th century (probably after 1234); its main concern is with the duties of the abbot and the obedientiaries, butit also throws much light on the daily duties of a 13th-century Bury monk. The edition is provided with an extensive historical introduction, and a number of treatises relevant to the customary and printed in appendices.

The Customary of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk

Sir Edward Maunde Thompson

The Customary of the Benedictine Monasteries of Saint Augustine, Canterbury, and Saint Peter, Westminster.

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Sir Edward Maunde Thompson

The Customary of the Benedictine Monasteries of Saint Augustine, Canterbury, and Saint Peter, Westminster.

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J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Customary of the Cathedral Priory Church of Norwich

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The Customary of the Cathedral Priory Church of Norwich

Jesse D. Billett

The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000

$160.00

First full-scale survey and examination of liturgical practice and its fundamental changes over four centuries.

At the heart of life in any medieval Christian religious community was the communal recitation of the daily "hours of prayer" or Divine Office. This book draws on narrative, conciliar, and manuscript sources to reconstruct the history of how the Divine Office was sung in Anglo-Saxon minster churches from the coming of the first Roman missionaries in 597 to the height of the "monastic revival" in the tenth century.
Going beyond both the hagiographic "Benedictine" assumptions of older scholarship and the cautious agnosticism of more recent historians of Anglo-Saxon Christianity, the author demonstrates that the early Anglo-Saxon Church followed a non-Benedictine "Roman" monasticliturgical tradition. Despite Viking depredations and native laxity, this tradition survived, enriched through contact with varied Continental liturgies, into the tenth century. Only then did a few advanced monastic reformers conclude, based on their study of ninth-century Frankish reforms fully explained for the first time in this book, that English monks and nuns ought to follow the liturgical prescriptions of the Rule of St Benedict to the letter. Fragmentary manuscript survivals reveal how monastic leaders such as Dunstan and Æthelwold variously adapted the native English liturgical tradition - or replaced it - to implement this forgotten central plank of the "Benedictine Reform".

Jesse D. Billett is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, Toronto.

Jesse D. Billett

The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000

$60.00

First full-scale survey and examination of liturgical practice and its fundamental changes over four centuries.

At the heart of life in any medieval Christian religious community was the communal recitation of the daily "hours of prayer" or Divine Office. This book draws on narrative, conciliar, and manuscript sources to reconstruct the history of how the Divine Office was sung in Anglo-Saxon minster churches from the coming of the first Roman missionaries in 597 to the height of the "monastic revival" in the tenth century.
Going beyond both the hagiographic "Benedictine" assumptions of older scholarship and the cautious agnosticism of more recent historians of Anglo-Saxon Christianity, the author demonstrates that the early Anglo-Saxon Church followed a non-Benedictine "Roman" monasticliturgical tradition. Despite Viking depredations and native laxity, this tradition survived, enriched through contact with varied Continental liturgies, into the tenth century. Only then did a few advanced monastic reformers conclude, based on their study of ninth-century Frankish reforms fully explained for the first time in this book, that English monks and nuns ought to follow the liturgical prescriptions of the Rule of St Benedict to the letter. Fragmentary manuscript survivals reveal how monastic leaders such as Dunstan and Æthelwold variously adapted the native English liturgical tradition - or replaced it - to implement this forgotten central plank of the "Benedictine Reform".

JESSE D. BILLETT is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, Toronto.

Alicia Corrêa

The Durham Collectar

$75.00

A translation and study of Durham Cathedral Library MS A. IV. 19, a book of collects for the Divine Office, a part of the service-books of monk or priest in Anglo-Saxon England.

Few liturgical historians are aware that a book of collects for theDivine Office formed part of the service-books owned by a monk orpriest in Anglo-Saxon England. The Durham Collectar, misnamed the`Durham Ritual'and tentatively dated to the tenth century, is the earliest collectar to have survived in England. Where did it come from,and how was it used? To answer the first, a new edition of the Latintext is presented in this volume, with extensive collationtablesshowing at a glance the most influential liturgical sources. In theintroduction, the function of the collectar is discussed.

Reginald Maxwell Woolley

The Gilbertine Rite

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Reginald Maxwell Woolley

The Gilbertine Rite

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H.A. Wilson

The Gregorian Sacramentary

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Walter Howard Frere

The Hereford Breviary, Edited from the Rouen edition of 1505 with Collation of Manuscripts by Walter Howard Frere of the Community of the Resurrection and Langton E.G. Brown, Sub-Librarian of the Chapter Library, Hereford, Vol.I.

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Walter Howard Frere

The Hereford Breviary, Edited from the Rouen edition of 1505 with Collation of Manuscripts by Walter Howard Frere of the Community of the Resurrection and Langton E.G. Brown, Sub-Librarian of the Chapter Library, Hereford, Vol.2.

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Walter Howard Frere, Langton E.G. Brown

The Hereford Breviary, Edited from the Rouen edition of 1505 with Collation of Manuscripts by Walter Howard Frere of the Community of the Resurrection and Langton E.G. Brown, Sub-Librarian of the Chapter Library, Hereford, Vol.3.

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J H Bernard, R Atkinson

The Irish Liber Hymnorum Volume I

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J H Bernard

The Irish Liber Hymnorum Volume II

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E.S. Dewick

The Leofric Collectar

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E.S. Dewick

The Leofric Collectar vol. II

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Nicholas Orchard

The Leofric Missal

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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).

Nicholas Orchard

The Leofric Missal

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Helen Gittos

The Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church

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New research into the liturgy of Anglo-Saxon history, with important implications for church history in general.

The essays in this volume offer the fruits of new research into the liturgical rituals of later Anglo-Saxon England. They include studies of individual rites, the production, adaptation and transmission of texts, vernacular gospeltranslations, liturgical drama and the influence of the liturgy on medical remedies, poetry and architecture; also covered are the tenth-century Benedictine Reforms and the growth of pastoral care. It will be valuable for anyoneinterested in later Anglo-Saxon England as well as medieval liturgy and church history.

The Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church

Christopher Wordsworth

The manner of the coronation of King Charles the first of England at Westminster, 2 Feb. 1626.

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The manner of the coronation of King Charles the first of England at Westminster, 2 Feb. 1626.

F Proctor

The Martiloge in Englysshe

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Whitley Stokes

The Martyrology of Gorman

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Whitley Stokes

The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee

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Richard Irvine Best

The Martyrology of Tallaght

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The Martyrology of Tallaght is contemporary with that of Oengus (vol. 29 in this series) and served as the latter's source. Tallaght monastery, close to Dublin, was founded by Maelruain (d. 792), and his disciple Oengus wasa member of the community. The Stowe Missal (vols 31 and 32 in this series) also has a Tallaght provenance. Dated to c. 797-808, the Martyrology of Tallaght is the earliest Irish compilation of its kind, but seems to have aimed at a full list of saints from the Roman Calendar. Under each day is given an entry in Latin followed by a supplement in Irish. The principal manuscript is the Book of Leinster. The many marginal notes and poems of themanuscript are reproduced here, and the edition contains a wealth of notes and very full indexes.

Pádraig Ó Riain

The Martyrology of the Regensburg Schottenkloster

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Edition, with introduction and notes, of important Irish liturgical texts found in Bavaria.

The earliest Irish martyrology was compiled in prose and verse at Tallaght, near Dublin, about the year 830. Little has hitherto been known of its circulation before the period 1150-60, when the surviving copy of the prose versionwas made. Now, through the martyrology of the Regensburg Schottenkloster, we know that a copy of the metrical version had reached Bavaria in the southern part of Germany by the late tenth century, where it was used, firstby the Irish monks of the Regensburg Schottenkloster, then as a source of entries in other local German martyrologies. The martyrology, edited here for the first time, bears witness, therefore, to the circulation in Bavariaof this originally Irish compilation and, together with other documents, shows how the Scottish Benedictine monks, who succeeded the Irish in several monasteries in southern Germany and Austria, adapted to their own use a numberof essentially Irish liturgical documents.

Emeritus Professor Pádraig Ó Riain is a member of the Placenames Commission of Ireland and one of the editors of the Locus project.

The Martyrology of the Regensburg <I>Schottenkloster</I>

Eric Esskildsen Yelverton

The Mass in Sweden

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H. A. Wilson

The Missal of Robert of Jumièges

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Early 11c service book containing many masses commemorating English and Continental saints.

The `Missal of Robert of Jumièges' is one of the most important, and also most beautifully written and decorated, service books which have survived from the late Anglo-Saxon period. Probably written at Canterbury in the early years of the eleventh century, it eventually came into the possession of Robert, bishop of London (1044-51), who gave it to the abbey of Jumièges in France, where it remained until 1791. From a liturgical point of view, the manuscriptis notable for the large number of masses commemorating not only native English, but also continental, and particularly Flemish, saints culted in late Anglo-Saxon England; the book is thus an important witness to the cultural links between England and the Continent at that time.
The text, first published in 1896, has a still-valuable introduction by its editor and is accompanied by fifteen black and white plates, which give some impression of the original, lavish decoration. There are also full indexes of liturgical forms and subjects.

D.H. Turner

The Missal of the New Minster Winchester

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The Missal of the New Minster Winchester

J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, Winchester

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J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, Winchester

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J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, Winchester

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J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, Winchester

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J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Monastic Breviary of Hyde Abbey, Winchester

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Dom Louis Brou OSB

The Monastic Ordinale of St Vedast's Abbey Arras

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Dom Louis Brou OSB

The Monastic Ordinale of St Vedast's Abbey Arras

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Anselme Davril

The Monastic Ritual of Fleury

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New light is shed on the spiritual life and liturgical rituals of the influential abbey of St Benedict in the 12th century.

During the central middle ages, the abbey of St Benedict at Fleury on the Loire was one of the most influential monasteries in Europe. Consequently its spiritual life and liturgical ritual are of great interest to scholars. Thispreviously unpublished monastic ritual, dating from the 12th century, sheds new light on studies in the field.

Julius Parnell Gilson

The Mozarabic Psalter

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H.A. Wilson

The Order of Communion, 1548

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Abbess of Stanbrook

The Ordinal and Customary of the Abbey of Saint Mary York

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Abbess of Stanbrook, J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Ordinal and Customary of the Abbey of Saint Mary York Volume II

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Abbess of Stanbrook, J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Ordinal and Customary of the Abbey of Saint Mary York Volume III

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The Ordinal and Customary of the Abbey of Saint Mary York Volume III

David Chadd

The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity Fécamp

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Edition of twelfth-century Ordinal from Fécamp, giving a detailed view of monastic liturgy.

The abbey of Fécamp, reformed in the early years of the eleventh century by William of Volpiano, abbot of St-Bénigne at Dijon, was a key institution in the development of Norman monasticism in the middle ages. As one of the most energetic monastic reformers of his time, William was noted for the attention he paid to the liturgy of the many abbeys he superintended, and his liturgical cursus was influential in English and continental monastic houses.
The Fécamp Ordinal, edited here from a manuscript of the early thirteenth century, but transmitting the liturgy observed in the abbey some two centuries earlier, is the first complete source of William's liturgical work tobe printed. It is expanded by readings from complementary Fécamp service books, creating a text which gives a particularly detailed view of medieval monastic liturgy. This first volume contains the Temporal; the remainder of the Ordinal, together with comprehensive indexes, will form the second volume.DAVID CHADDteaches in the School of Music at the University of East Anglia.

David Chadd

The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fécamp (Fécamp, Musée de la Bénédictine, MS 186), II [containing parts II, III and IV]

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Second of two-volume edition of twelfth-century Ordinal from Fécamp, giving a detailed view of monastic liturgy.

The abbey of Fécamp, reformed in the early years of the eleventh century by William of Volpiano, abbot of St-Bénigne at Dijon, was a key institution in the development of Norman monasticism in the middle ages. As one of the most energetic monastic reformers of his time, William was noted for the attention he paid to the liturgy of the many abbeys he superintended, and his liturgical cursus was influential in English and continental monastic houses.
The Fécamp Ordinal, edited here from a manuscript of the early thirteenth century, but transmitting the liturgy observed in the abbey some two centuries earlier, is the first complete source of William's liturgical work tobe printed. It is expanded by readings from complementary Fécamp service books, creating a text which gives a particularly detailed view of medieval monastic liturgy. The first volume contains the Temporale; this volume contains the remainder of the Ordinal (Sanctorale, Commune Sanctorum and Miscellanea), together with comprehensive indexes.
DAVID CHADD teaches in the School of Music at the University of East Anglia.