Author: Walter Howard Frere

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Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781331924715

Excerpt from The Use of Sarum: I. The Sarum Customs, as Set Forth in the Consuetudinary and Customary; The Original Texts Edited From the Mss;, With an Introduction and Index I. The nature of the documents Gradual recovery of medieval rites (p. xi): the Consuetudinary and Customary are important contributions to this (p. xii): their relation to one another and to the Ordinal briefly described and the Evolution of the Directorium from the three (p. xii). 2. The early days of Sarum. Origin of the diocesework of Bp Herman and S. Osmund (p. xiii): the capitular system introduced by the Normans (p. xiv): three foundations of the Xlth century: sketch of some main features in the subsequent evolution (p. xvi). 3. The origin of the Consuetudinary and the Customary. The Consuetudinary how far the work of S. Osmund (p. xvii): the date of it in its earlier and later recension (p. xix): the Customary derived from it: its date (p. xx). 4. The Use of Sarum and its influence on the constitution of other Cathedral Bodies. Primary and secondary authorities for Sarum Use from 1090 to 1324 (p. xxi): influence at York (p. xxii): at Hereford (p. xxiii): at Lincoln (p. xxiii): a conjecture as to Sarum legislation about Vicars Choral which is no longer extant (p. xxv): influence at Moray (pp. xxiv and xxv): at Elgin (p. xxviii): at Glasgow (p. xxviii): at Chichester (p. xxix): at Wells (p. xxx): at Exeter (p. xxxii): at Lichflcld (p. xxxiii): at London (p. xxxvi): at Dublin (p. xxxvi): Summary (p. xxxvii). 5. The inner relation of the documents. Relation of the first to the second recension (p. xxxviii): of both to the Service books (p. xl): of the Customary to the Consuetudinary (p. xl). 6. A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCES. Four mss. of the Consuetudinary (p. xlii): six of the Customary (p. xliii): method adopted in printing the texts (p. xliii). 7. The mss. in detail Consuetudinary. The Sarum ms. (p. xliv): subsequent history of this text (p. xlviii): the Dublin MS. (p. xlix): the Bodleian MS. (p. lii): the Harleian MS. (p. lii): note upon two printed editions of the Sarum MS. (p. liii). Customary. The Corpus MS. (p. lvi): the Sarum ms. (p. lvi): the Harleian MS. (p. Ivii): the Arundel MS. (p. Ivii): the Rawlinson MS. (p. lviii): the Jones ms. (p. tviii). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."