Books published by Henry Bradshaw Society

Latin drafts by the chief architect of the English Reformation, from the years 1543-1547, of revised forms of Divine Office.

An edition of, and commentary on, the Leofric Missal, a late-ninth- or early-tenth-century liturgical book combining sacramental, pontifical and ritual with cues for the sung parts of various masses.

The Egbert Pontifical (Paris, BN lat. 10575) and the Sidney Sussex Pontifical (Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College 100) cast light on the English church in the 10th century.

Fourth of 6 volumes. The project to edit the Hyde Breviary was a considerable one that was to occupy the HBS for a decade. Hyde Abbey hadbeen founded alongside New Minster, Winchester un 965 by St Ethelwold [c. 908-984], Bishop if Winchester, and a former Abbot of Abingdon, with Abingdon Monks. In 1110 the community moved from its cramped premises to Hyde Meadow, just outside the city walls. The breviary MSS edited were most probably written during thre abbacy of Symon de Kanings [1292-1304]. The Hyde Breviary is one of a small number of surviving MS witneses to the form of the English Benedictine breviary, supplemented by what Tolhurst thought was a single surviving volume of a 1528 printed breviary or portiforium of Abingdon. The Hyde relics were here cosen as the most typical and informative. The Rawlinson and Gough MSS were written by different scribes but on virtuallly indistinguishable vellum and with illuminations from the same hand. Here they are collated with survivg witnesses to the English Benedictine breviary of the period. The sixth volume of the set is 'Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries', volume 80 in the series.

Fifth of 6 volumes.. The project to edit the Hyde Breviary was a considerable one that was to occupy the HBS for a decade. Hyde Abbey hadbeen founded alongside New Minster, Winchester un 965 by St Ethelwold [c. 908-984], Bishop if Winchester, and a former Abbot of Abingdon, with Abingdon Monks. In 1110 the community moved from its cramped premises to Hyde Meadow, just outside the city walls. The breviary MSS edited were most probably written during thre abbacy of Symon de Kanings [1292-1304]. The Hyde Breviary is one of a small number of surviving MS witneses to the form of the English Benedictine breviary, supplemented by what Tolhurst thought was a single surviving volume of a 1528 printed breviary or portiforium of Abingdon. The Hyde relics were here cosen as the most typical and informative. The Rawlinson and Gough MSS were written by different scribes but on virtuallly indistinguishable vellum and with illuminations from the same hand. Here they are collated with survivg witnesses to the English Benedictine breviary of the period. The final volume of the set is 'Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries', volume 80 in the series.

New light is shed on the spiritual life and liturgical rituals of the influential abbey of St Benedict in the 12th century.

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This text represents a sort of customary or ordinal for the English court chapel in 1449, intended to govern the life of the 49 people, including choirboys, who were the staff of this peripatetic establishment. It was based on earlier drafts, and was sent to Alvaro Vaz d'Almada, a knight of the Garter, for the use of Afonso V of Portugal; it includes a copy of the English coronation rites.

Evidence of the spread of the cults of English saints in medieval Scandinavia is revealed by detailed detective work in fragmentary manuscripts.

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

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.

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.

Diplomatic edition of interesting sacramentary from the Carolingian period.

The definitive guide to the development of early Roman liturgy by one of the twentieth century's great liturgical scholars.

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.

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

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