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Westminster Missal

By J. Wickham Legg

Westminster Missal

By J. Wickham Legg

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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 missal text 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 which gives 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
1116
Release Date:
1891-01-01
Publication Date:
2018-07-20
Publisher:
Henry Bradshaw Society
Languages:
Original: Latin
ISBN10:
1783273437
ISBN13:
9781783273430
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1370 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
59 cm
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