Books in the Henry Bradshaw Society series

It is well known that St Bernard in 1147 revised the monastic hymnal for the use of his Cistercian monks; the anonymous "Explanatio" is primary evidence for the content of Bernard's hymnal. This title presents a commentary that is based on a manuscript written at Clairvaux in the late 12th century.

Diplomatic edition of interesting sacramentary from the Carolingian period.

First of 2 vols, see [48]. Ricemarsh or Rhygyfarch the wise, son of Sulien or Sulgenius. His father was Bishop of St Davids in Wales in the years 1072-1078 and 1080-1085. Rhygyfarch himself was a teacher in the school of St Davids, actually sited at Llanbadarn Fawr, The so-called Ricemarsh Psalter [including the martyology], housed as Dublin, Trinity College MS 50, is dated by the editor to c. 1076-1081. The Psalter is Jerome's translation from the Hebrew, and although the text is not reprinted in full in this edition, a collation is given against Domenico Vallarsi's edition, Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi stridonensis presbyteri operanum tomus nonus, Antonio Berno & Giacomo Vallarsi, Verona, 1738, coll. 1159ff, and Paul Anton de Lagarde, Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos Hieronymi, Teubner, Leipzig, 1874. The Martyology us an abbreviated recension of the Hieronymian martyrology and is close to the redaction in the Codex Epternacensis. The poem "The Lament of Ricemarch" is printed in an appendix taken from London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina C.I., fol. 66. The wqhole edition is abundantly furnished with notes. See Kenney, n. 508; BCLL, nn. 31, 32, 123.

New edition of, and commentary on, one of the most important liturgical books to have come down to us from the late Anglo-Saxon church.

Edition of twelfth-century Ordinal from Fecamp, giving a detailed view of monastic liturgy.

First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece.

Edition, with introduction and notes, of important Irish liturgical texts found in Bavaria.

A photographic reprint of the rare edition,first published in 1912, of the `Fulda Sacramentary' (Gottingen, UB, Cod. theol. 231), a 10th-century manuscript written at Fulda which represents a distinct recension of the Gregorian Sacramentary, possibly connected with the scholarly activities of Hrabanus Maurus (d.856). The Fulda Sacramentary was richly illuminated; it is also a rich repository of prayers and mass formulas, and its ample contents include aprayer in Old High German.

A source of outstanding importance for the study of the early Irish church. This edition presents all martyrologies not previously printed, all descendants in some way of the 'Martyrology of Oengus'.

A guide to breviaries (monastic service books containing the Divine Office) in late medieval England.

Early 11c service book containing many masses commemorating English and Continental saints.

Diplomatic edition of interesting sacramentary from the Carolingian period.

Earliest surviving English sacramentary containing English and continental liturgical rite.

Edition of complex and important early liturgical work.

Edition of twelfth-century Ordinal from Fecamp, giving a detailed view of monastic liturgy.

Second of two-volume edition of twelfth-century Ordinal from Fecamp, giving a detailed view of monastic liturgy.

Missal text with notes and commentary: a fundamental tool for the study of both insular and continental medieval mass-books.

Edition of rare surviving litanies from the middle ages, providing evidence for monastic worship.