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  • Publisher:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Publication date:
    January 2025
    August 2021
    ISBN:
    9781800103009
    9781903153994
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800103009
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    York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
    Subjects:
    Religion, Religion: General Interest
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    York Manuscript and Early Print Studies
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    Religion, Religion: General Interest
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    Sarum Use was the most widely used form of the liturgy in late medieval England, but its service books were much less standardized than their modern counterparts. The lack of uniformity is particularly marked in Sarum breviaries' lessons on saints, which can vary enormously from copy to copy. This book is the first comprehensive examination of those lessons and the manuscripts that preserve them. It provides a catalogue of over eighty manuscripts and twelve early printed versions, giving a brief description of each one, sometimes correcting previous views of its date and provenance, and identifying each copy's divergences from the standard Sarum roster of saints. The book also identifies the textual families into which the manuscripts fall and the extent of their divergence from the lessons in both the early printed versions and the inadequate nineteenth-century edition on which modern scholars have previously depended. The author's findings offer an introduction to the unexpectedly rich variety of hagiographical lessons that survive, identify some of the sources behind them, and shed new light on the ways in which the Sarum breviary developed and was disseminated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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