A01=E.A. Lowe
A01=William Wilson
Author_E.A. Lowe
Author_William Wilson
Bobbio Missal
Category=QRAX
Charlemagne's reforms
early middle ages
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Frankish churches
Gallican
Gelasian origin
idiosyncratic mixture
Italian scribe
liturgical book
liturgy
manuscript
medieval liturgical practice
Merovingian
minuscule
palaeography
seventh century
uncial
Product details
- ISBN 9781870252546
- Weight: 506g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Bobbio Missal is one of the most important and interesting liturgical books surviving from the early middle ages. It is the best known example of the `Gallican' type of missal, attesting therefore to the distinctive liturgicalpractices which were widespread in Merovingian and Frankish churches during the seventh and eighth centuries, before these began to tbe replaced by the Roman practices including use of `Gregorian' missals in various forms duringthe period of Charlemagne's reforms. In the opinion of modern palaeographers, the Bobbio Missal was written somewhere in northern Italy in the mid-eighth century. Although it was long regarded as a witness to Irish liturgical practice, it is now considered as essentially Gallican, but incorporating various prayers of Gelasian origin. Palaeographically the manuscript (now Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, lat. 13246) is of great interest, being written in anidiosyncratic mixture of uncial and minuscule, by an Italian scribe neither literate nor well-trained. HBS LVIII, HBSLXI
