The Westminster Missal: [Missale AD Usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis] Contributor(s): Legg, J. Wickham (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1783273437 ISBN-13: 9781783273430 Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Latin Published: January 1891 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Europe - Medieval |
Dewey: 264.023 |
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society |
Physical Information: 2.19" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (2.78 lbs) 1109 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |