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Summary:

"Sarum Use was the most widely used form of the liturgy in late medieval England, but its service books were much less standardized than their modern counterparts. The lack of uniformity is particularly marked in Sarum breviaries' lessons on saints, which can vary enormously from copy to copy. This book is the first comprehensive examination of those lessons and the manuscripts that preserve them. It provides a catalogue of over 80 manuscripts and 12 early printed versions, giving a brief description of each one, sometimes correcting previous views of its date and provenance, and identifying each copy's divergences from the standard Sarum roster of saints. The book also identifies the textual families into which the manuscripts fall and the extent of their divergence from the lessons in both the early printed versions and the inadequate nineteenth-century edition on which modern scholars have previously depended. The author's findings offer an introduction to the unexpectedly rich variety of hagiographical lessons that survive, identify some of the sources behind them, and shed new light on the ways in which the Sarum breviary developed and was disseminated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." -- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• pt. One Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions
• pt. Two Three Studies
• A. Key Findings on the Major Textual Families
• B. ̀Extra' Texts for Saints in Some Manuscripts
• C. Key Findings on Liturgical Regulation and the Dating of These Manuscripts
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Reames, Sherry L., 1942- , author

Languages:

English
Latin

Language Notes:

In English and Latin, with English translations.

Main Work:

Saints' legends in medieval sarum breviaries: catalogue and studies [by Reames, S.L.]

Related Series:

York manuscript and early print studies; v. 2

Subjects:

Catholic Church — Missal (Salisbury) — Bibliography

Christian hagiography — History — To 1500

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Catholic Church

Missal (Salisbury : Catholic Church)

To 1500

Christian hagiography

Genres:

Literary criticism

Bibliographies

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Physical Description:

352 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

monochrome; illustration

Call Numbers:

BX4662 .R436 2021

ISBNs:

1903153999 (hardbound)
9781903153994 (hardbound)

OCLC Numbers:

1224160699