Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Leofric Missal, As Used in The Cathedral Of Exeter During The Episcopate Of Its First Bishop, A. D. 1050-1072: Together With Some Account Of The Red Book Of Derby, The Missal Of Robert Of Jumieges, And a Few Other Early Manuscript Service Books Of The English Church
The object of the publication of this volume is to render generally accessible the text of [the Liturgy of the Church of England during the anglo-saxon period. The Liturgy of the Anglo - Norman period has been popularized by recent reprints of the Sarum, York, and Hereford Missals. With the Leofric Missal before him, a student will now be able to trace the alterations and modifications which gradually took place in the text of the Canon and in the structure of Masses. The almost entire absence of rubrics from the Leofric, in common with. All early Sacramentaries, will unfortunately prevent him from ascertaining how far the peculiar directions of the later Uses as to the position and manual acts of the priest, the sequence of colours, and other ritual details, are of mediaeval origin, or a perpetuation of earlier English usage. In the course of publication the Editor has become indebted to many known, and to some unknown, friends, for much valuable assistance and information. His thanks are especially due to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for undertaking a publica tion which would have been too costly for individual enterprise; to the chief Librarians and other members of the Library Staff in the University Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, the National Library at Paris, and the Public Library at Rouen, for much courtesy and assistance; to Henry Bradshaw, for help in deciphering faded pas sages in early Missals belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and freely put at the Editor's disposal through the Rev. 5. S. Lewis; to Professor \nestwood for advice and help in reproducing some of the faded designs in the Kalendar; to B. Davidson, Esq. And the Rev. C. W. Boase, for help in the identification of Obits, and of anglo-saxon names of places and persons to E. Bishop, Esq., for help in tracing the history of a lost Leofric Missa]; to the Rev. W. C. Bishop, jun., for aid in attempting to discover an ancient Missal of the Church of England, stated to have been at Cologne in the sixteenth century; to Falconer Madan, Esq., Miss Wyndham, and others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
