The Bobbio Missal
The Bobbio Missal
Rob Meens, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
£35.00
GBPThe Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but, additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be derived from material attached to the codex, which provides valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background. The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural context in which the codex was written.
- The first study of the Bobbio Missal since 1924
- Examines the Merovingian liturgy and reveals the richness of early medieval religious culture
- An important insight into the development of Latin palaeography
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: 'This volume of studies is, in its production as well as the quality of its contents a credit to the distinguished series in which it appears.' The Library
Product details
December 2009Paperback
9780521126915
248 pages
244 × 170 × 13 mm
0.4kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: The Bobbio Missal - from Mabillon onwards Yitzhak Hen
- 2. The script of the Bobbio Missal Rosamond McKitterick
- 3. The palimpsest leaves in the Bobbio Missal David Ganz
- 4. Reading and writing the Bobbio Missal: punctuation, word separation and animated initials Marco Mostert
- 5. Liturgical Latin in the Bobbio Missal Els Rose
- 6. Additions to the Bobbio Missal: De dies malus and 'Joca monachorum' Charles D. Wright and Roger Wright
- 7. The Liturgy of the Bobbio Missal Yitzhak Hen
- 8. Reforming the clergy: a context for the use of the Bobbio penitential Rob Meens
- 9. Doctrinal and theological themes in the prayers of the Bobbio Missal Louise P. M. Batstone
- 10. The Missa pro principe in the Bobbio Missal Mary Garrison
- 11. Liturgy in the Rhône Valley and the Bobbio Missal Ian N. Wood
- 12. Conclusion Yitzhak Hen and Rob Meens
- Manuscript index
- General index.
