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The Canterbury Benedictional British Museum Harl. MS. 2892 (Paperback)
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The Canterbury Benedictional British Museum Harl. MS. 2892 (Paperback)
Series: Henry Bradshaw Society
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Record of liturgical observances at Canterbury in 11c, including
valuable full record of the cult of saints there in the last days
of the Anglo-Saxon church. The benedictional was a bishop's book,
containing the prayers which only a bishop (or archbishop) could
pronounce when he said mass, characteristically a lavish
production. Several have survived from Anglo-Saxon England and
thesehave recently been attracting the attention of liturgists and
palaeographers. One of the most important is the `Canterbury
Benedictional', now London, British Library, Harley 2892, written
at Christ Church, Canterbury, around themiddle of the eleventh
century. The `Canterbury Benedictional' provides a valuable record
of liturgical observance at the seat of the English archbishop. In
particular, it gives a full record of the cult of saints at the
metropolitan see in the last days of the Anglo-Saxon church. The
Latin text is accompanied by an introduction and detailed
liturgical notes in which the relationships between the surviving
Anglo-Saxon benedictionals and their continental antecedents are
set out for the first time. The book will be of interest to
students of the medieval liturgy, and to historians of the
Anglo-Saxon church. First published 1917.
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