The Westminster Missal: [Missale ad usum Ecclesie Westmonasteriensis] (Henry Bradshaw Society)

by John Wickham Legg (Editor)

The manuscript edited in these volumes is a fine and elaborate missal of Westminster Abbey, given by Nicholas Lytlington (abbot 1362-1386) and often referred to by his name. As well as its importance as a particularly full missal text from a royal abbey (it includes an extensive coronation ritual), it is also the only monastic representative of a `Sarum' type of sacramentary to have received a modern edition. John Wickham Legg's publication of this manuscript was an early milestone in the Henry Bradshaw Society programme, and is particularly notable for its extensive critical employing over fifty other manuscripts, as well as printed sources, Legg provided a commentary which gives an extraordinarily comprehensive view of texts for the celebration of mass in the middle ages. His work remains, over a century after its publication, a fundamental and indispensible tool for the study of medieval mass-books, both insular and continental. Reissue; First published 1891.

1032 pages, Hardcover

First published February 10, 2000

About the author

John Wickham Legg (1843-1921) was the third son of the printer and bookseller George Legg. He was a surgeon, and wrote medical publications.