Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office: A Guide to Their Organization and Terminology

A handbook for those who deal with medieval liturgical manuscripts, particularly those of the late Middle Ages. Their functions and structures, with a special chapter on books for Lent and Easter. Covers various kinds of masses, plus antiphonals, breviaries, psalters, hymnals, etc. With notes, a list of sources mss. , index of incipits, general index, and 28 black-and-white plates of text pages and pages of text plus musical notation. Laid in is a lengthy review of this book by Richard Crocker, from an unidentified journal. Some soiling; some pages are creased at the bottom corner. xxxiv, 470 pages. decorated cloth.. large 8vo..