The Leofric Missal: I. Introduction, Collation Tables and Index (Henry Bradshaw Society) (Volume 113) - Hardcover

Palmer, Caroline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1870252179 ISBN 13: 9781870252171

Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society, 2002

Synopsis

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 the successors 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).

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Nicholas Orchard is Deputy Slide Librarian, Courtauld Institute of Art.

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A work of tremendous intelligence and discrimination.... An excellent edition and an extremely persuasive account of a complex but central document. SPECULUM

Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1870252179
• ISBN 13: 9781870252171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Orchard Nicholas