Name: 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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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]

$49.95

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.

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

J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Ordinale and Customary of the Benedictine Nuns of Barking Abbey I

$65.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

J.B.L. Tolhurst

The Ordinale and Customary of the Benedictine Nuns of Barking Abbey II

$75.00

The Ordinal and Customary of Barking Abbey, one of a number of its liturgical manuscripts which survive, was written on the instructions of Sibille Fenton, who was abbess from 1394 to 1419, and the manuscript was presented to theabbey in 1404; its liturgical usages deal mainly with the functioning of the choir.

The Ordinale and Customary of the Benedictine Nuns of Barking Abbey II

H.A. Wilson

The Pontifical of Magdalen College

$75.00

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Anselm Hughes

The Portiforium of Saint Wulstan Volume 2

$65.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

The Portiforium of Saint Wulstan Volume 2

Hugh Jackson Lawlor

The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch

$75.00

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The Psalter and Martyrology of Ricemarch

Dom Louis Brou

The Psalter Collects

$75.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

Hugh Jackson Lawlor

The Rosslyn Missal

$75.00

A manuscript rather obliquely named from its once having been at Rosslyn Castle, but that at the time of this edition had come to the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, which since 1925 is part of the National Library of Scotland (MS Advocates 18.5.19). Lawlor dated it to the late 13th or early 14th century, and saw it as an English copy of an Irish exemplar in turn descended from a book belonging to the Benedictine nuns of St Werbugh, Chester, in the 12thcentury.

Yitzhak Hen

The Sacramentary of Echternach (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 9433)

$65.00

Diplomatic edition of interesting sacramentary from the Carolingian period.

This sacramentary, compiled at the abbey of Echternach between 895 and 900, is one of the most interesting and unusual examples from the Carolingian period. Unique in combining aspects of Gregorian, Gelasian, and Old Gelasian sacramentaries, it also has important implications for such matters as Carolingian liturgical reforms, and it is a vital source for the study of the local history of the abbey of Echternach itself. The Sacramentary, with material appended to it (such as a list of the benefactors of the abbey), is presented here in a diplomatic edition, with introduction, notes and collation tables by the editor.

YITZHAK HEN is Lecturer in History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

The Sacramentary of Echternach (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 9433)

Nicholas Orchard

The Sacramentary of Ratoldus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12052)

$80.00

Edition of complex and important early liturgical work.

The highly complex combined sacramentary and pontifical presented here, preserved as Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12052, was apparently written to the order of Ratoldus, abbot of Corbie (d. 986), but in fact has along and complicated history. The sacramentary descends from a book compiled at Saint-Denis, later augmented with material relating to Dol (in Brittany) and Arras, while the pontifical, such as it is, descends in large part froma book drawn up for Oda, archbishop of Canterbury (941-58). Moreover, late-tenth and eleventh-century additions show that Corbie was merely the last link in a fascinating and sometimes puzzling chain. The work is thus of considerable importance to scholars and this edition, with introduction, will be warmly welcomed.

Dr NICHOLAS ORCHARD is Deputy Slide Librarian at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

The Sacramentary of Ratoldus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12052)

John Wickham Legg

The Second Recension of the Quignon Breviary, Following an edition printed at Antwerp in 1537 and collated with Twelve Other Editions, To which is Prefixed a Handlist of Editions of the First and Second Recensions.

$75.00

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John Wickham Legg

The Second Recension of the Quignon Breviary, Following an edition printed at Antwerp in 1537 and collated with Twelve Other Editions, To which is Prefixed a Handlist of Editions of the First and Second Recensions.

$75.00

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

George F. Warner

The Stowe Missal MS D.II.3 in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

$75.00

The Stowe Missal, now housed in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin as MS.D.II.3, is one of the most famous Irish manuscripts to have survived from the middle ages. The first part consists of excerpts from the Gospel of St John (fols. 1-11), the second the Stowe Missal proper (fols. 12-67). It is one of the earliest datable Irish manuscripts and an important witness to the early Irish church and to the Irish language at that time.

The Stowe Missal MS D.II.3 in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin

Christopher Wordsworth

The Tracts of Clement Maydeston, with the Remains of Caxton's Ordinale

$75.00

This volume presents a kind of anticipated companion volume to the HBS edition of the Directorium Sacerdotum, a variety of ordinal or directory, which was privately compiled by Clement Maydeston, who though a priest held formally the post of "deacon" at the Brigittine Abbey of Syon, Middlesex (c. 1390-1456). Despite these origins, the compilation acquired a de facto official status. The Directorium Sacerdotum itself was published as volumes 20 and 22.
The Directorium aimed in part at providing calendrical and rubrical solutions for those observing the Sarum Use. It did this by making a distinction between the practice of the Salisbury cathedral chapter and the practice that could reasonably be required from the many others in England who followed in general the Sarum Use. Maydeston's position was that outside the Salisbury chapter it was reasonable to make modifications to meet local conditions and calendars. This was deemed unacceptable by some, who maintained that the practice observed at Salisbury itself should be followed everywhere. This line of argument ignored the fact that in any case there were contradictions between the existing manuscript drafts of the Sarum ordinal and the rubrics of the liturgical books.
The edition focuses in particular on two printed texts which offer Maydeston's defence. The first is the Defensorium Directorii Sacerdotum printed in successive editions of the Directorium Sacerdotum by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495. The second is the text Crede Michi, a longer and more considered rubrical tract compiled by Maydeston but incorporating rubrical adjudications made by the Salisbury canons c. 1440-1450, and partly based on an earlier work by one John Raynton. The text given is that printed by Wynkyn de Worde in the quarto of 1495.

The Tracts of Clement Maydeston, with the Remains of Caxton's <I>Ordinale</I>

J. Wickham Legg

The Westminster Missal

$140.00

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.

Anselme Davril

The Winchcombe Sacramentary: Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, 127 [105]

$49.95

Earliest surviving English sacramentary containing English and continental liturgical rite.

During the tenth century, there were intimate connections between the English Church and the French abbey of Fleury, which was at that time one of the foremost intellectual centres in Europe. A number of leading English churchmen,such as Archbishop Oswald (d.992) and Abbot Germanus, went to Fleury for their training, and it was from Fleury that Abbo, perhaps the most learned man in the Europe of his day, came to England to spend two years teaching at thefenland monastery of Ramsey (985-7). The `Winchcombe Sacramentary', which may have been written at Ramsey at this time, is the earliest complete surviving English sacramentary, and a product of the links between England and Fleury. Though written by an English scribe, it had been taken to Fleury by the early eleventh century, and remained there during the middle ages. The fascinating combination of English and continental liturgical rite represented in this manuscript is elucidated for the first time by Fr Anselme Davril.

Fr ANSELME DAVRIL, foremost living authority on tenth-century Fleury, is a monk of the Benedictine community at Fleury.

The Winchcombe Sacramentary: Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, 127 [105]

Walter Howard Frere

The Winchester Troper

$75.00

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John Wickham Legg

Three Coronation Orders

$75.00

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John Wickham Legg

Tracts on the Mass.

$75.00

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H.M.J. Banting

Two Anglo-Saxon Pontificals (the Egbert and Sidney Sussex Pontificals)

$75.00

The Egbert Pontifical (Paris, BN lat. 10575) and the Sidney Sussex Pontifical (Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College 100) cast light on the English church in the 10th century.

This book presents editions of two of the best known Anglo-Saxon pontificals, the so-called `Egbert Pontifical' (Paris, BN lat. 10575) and the `Sidney Sussex Pontifical' (Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College 100). The pontifical was abishop's book which contained the various ceremonies which ony a bishop could perform: consecration of a church or cemetary, consecration of all orders of clergy and of abbots and abbesses, and the coronation of a king. The various pontifical services in these two manuscripts, therefore, help to illustrate the nature of these solemn ceremonies in Anglo-Saxon England, and are a valuable index of the state of the English chuch in the 10th century.