The Canterbury Benedictional British Museum Harl. Ms. 2892

by Reginald Maxwell Woolley

Record of liturgical observances at Canterbury in 11c, including valuable full record of the cult of saints there in the last days of the Anglo-Saxon church.

The benedictional was a bishop's book, containing the prayers which only a bishop (or archbishop) could pronounce when he said mass, characteristically a lavish production. Several have survived from Anglo-Saxon England and thesehave recently been attracting the attention of liturgists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 187025256X
• ISBN13: 9781870252560
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"