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Medieval Liturgy: Mass Books

Library and internet resources about the medieval liturgy.

Overview

Early Church
Exultet Rolls
Lectionaries
Missals
Ordinals
Pontificals
Publisher Series
Sacramentaries

Early Church

Worship in the Early Church: an anthology of historical sources by Lawrence J. Johnson
Call Number: BV6 .J64 2009
Early Christianity in context : monuments and documents by F. Manns and E. Alliata (Editors)
Call Number: BR131 .E37 1993
Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E. : a sourcebook by Ramsay MacMullen and Eugene N. Lane (Editors)
Call Number: BR128.R7 P34 1992

Publisher Series

Henry Bradshaw Society
Monumenta Italiae liturgica
Monumenta liturgica Concilii Tridentini
Liturgiegeschichtliche Quellen und Forschungen
Spicilegium Friburgense
Rerum ecclesiasticarum documenta.
Cistercian liturgy series
Sources liturgiques
Monumenta Hispaniae sacra. Serie litúrgica
Rites of Western Christendom
Corpus Orationem
Comprises an alphabetical listing of all prayers, including the complete texts, used in the Latin Mass (t. 1-10), with a supplement in t. 11, followed by keys to their occurrence according to the Catholic lectionary and lists of manuscript sources (t. 12- ).

Lectionaries

Lectionarium Sancti Lamberti Leodiensis tempore Stephani Episcopi paratum (901-920) : Codex Bruxellensis 14650-59
Call Number: Z114 .U43 v.8
Lectionary (Ms. Biblioteca apostolicana vaticana. Vat. lat. 1274)
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 184

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 1274.
Gospel of Trebizond.
Call Number: BX375.L37 A2 1994 v.1

Full-color facsimile of the sole surviving parts of the 10th(?) cent. Greek lectionary manuscript.

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL MSS

Sacramentaries

Textes liturgiques de l'Eglise de Rome : le cycle liturgique romain annuel selon le sacramentaire du "Vaticanus Reginensis 316"
Call Number: BX2037.A3 G42 1997
Sacramentary (Ms. Biblioteca ambrosiana. A 24 bis inf)
Call Number: BV170 .L5513 Bd. 51, 1969
Liber sacramentorum Paduensis : (Padova, Biblioteca capitolare, cod. D 47)
Call Number: BX2037.A3 P65 2005
Il Sacramentario gelasiano : Cod. Vat. Reginense 316 : primo testimone completo dell'esperimento della liturgia romana nella Gallia precarolingia by Alfio Massimo Martelli
Call Number: BX2037.A3 G434 2003
Sacramentari de Barcelona : edició i estudi del manuscrit de la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3547 by Joan Bellavista
Call Number: BX2037.A2 B37 1994
The Gregorian sacramentary under Charles the Great; edited from three mss. of the 9th century by H. A. Wilson
Call Number: BV170 .H5 vol. 49 Nearby on shelf
Le sacramentaire grégorien, ses principales formes d'après les plus anciens manuscrits.
Call Number: BX2037.A3 G7244

Located inPius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Monumenta liturgica Ecclesiae Tridentinae saeculo XIII antiquiora
Call Number: BX1977.I8 M66 1983

Pontificals

Pontifical, Use of Sens, ca. 1350
British Library MS Egerton 931, f. 204

Le pontifical de la curie romaine au XIIIe siècle : texte latin, traduction, introduction by Monique Goullet, Guy Lobrichon et Eric Palazzo
Call Number: BX2030 .A2 2004
Le pontifical romain au Moyen-Age. by Michel Andrieu
Call Number: BX2030 .A6
Bologne et le pontifical d'Autun : chef-d'œuvre inconnu du premier Trecento, 1330-1340
Call Number: ND3380.4.A98 B65 2012

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Les pontificaux manuscripts des bibliothèques publiques de France
Call Number: Z7838.L7 L55
Pontificals (Additional Texts)

Ordinals

Sources of the modern Roman liturgy : the ordinals by Haymo of Faversham and related documents (1243-1307) by S.J.P. Van Dijk (Editor)
Call Number: BX2049.F7 O7 1963
Der Zurzacher Liber Ordinarius und seine Beziehungen zur Marbacher Liturgie : Aargauische Kantonsbibliothek Aarau, Handschrift MsBNQ 52, um 1370 by Peter Wittwer
Call Number: BX2017 .W58 2004
The Old French Paraclete ordinary, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms français 14410 and the Paraclete breviary, Chaumont, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 31 : I introduction and commentary by Chrysogonus Waddell
Call Number: Z6611.L76 W33 1985
Les Ordines Romani du haut Moyen Âge by Michel Andrieu
Call Number: BX2017 .A5
Ordinals (Additional Texts)
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Missals

Missal , Germany, S. (Würzburg); ca.1443-1455
British Library MS Arundel 108, f. 10v

The Bobbio Missal: a Gallican mass-book (ms. Paris. Lat. 13246) by E. A. Lowe (Editor)
Call Number: BV170 .H5 vol. 58
[Missale monasticum] [Germany, 1200-1250]
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 2879

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Ross 181.
Two early Cistercian Libelli Missarum : Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, ms 2300, ff. 85b-122v ; Reims, Bibliothèque Municipale ms 310, ff. 76r-97v edition of texts by Chrysogonus Waddell (Editor)
Call Number: BX2049.C5 W34 1991
Un cànon de la missa del segle XIV en romanç : estudi i edició de la versió de Guillem Anglés (ACV, Ms. 169) by Antoni Ferrando
Call Number: BX2015.2 .F46 2007
The Leofric missal by Nicholas Orchard (Editor)
Call Number: BV170 .H5 vol.113, etc. v.114
[Breviarii et missalis excerptum] [Avignon, 1320-1330]
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 4679

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL

Cod. Arch. Cap. S. Pietro CCCLXXXVI.
Les oraisons du Missel Romain : texte et histoire by P. Bruylants
Call Number: BX2045.D62 B6
Missal (Ms. Pius XII Memorial Library. VFL MS 16) [Italy, 1310-1320]
Call Number: VFL MS 016

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL MSS

St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 16.
Vetus missale Romanum monasticum lateranense : archivii Basilicae Lateranensis : Codex A65 (olim 65) by Shin-Ho Chang
Call Number: BX2015 .A2 2002
Liber missarum de Toledo y libros místicos by José Janini
Call Number: BX1995.M7 L52 1982
Missal (Ms. Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, Cod. Lat. 221)
Call Number: ND3375.O77 C38 1989

"Missale itinerantium" executed in Bavaria ca. 1501 for Erasmus, Count of Wertheim, with an accompanying volume of commentary.
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Libellus Missae papalis (Ms. Borg. Lat. 425)
Call Number: ND3375.B53 L5 1986

The Christmas missal of Pope Alexander VI. With accompanying volume of commentary.

Exultet Rolls

The Exultet in Southern Italy by Thomas Forrest Kelly
Call Number: BX2045.E89 K45 1996

ISBN: 0195095278
Exultet : rotoli liturgici del medioevo meridionale by direzione scientifica, Guglielmo Cavallo ; coordinamento, Giulia Orofino, Oronzo Pecere.
Call Number: BX2045.E89 E98 1994

Exhibition of manuscripts from the Biblioteca apostolica vaticana and Montecassino Monastery.
Montecassino e la riforma gregoriana : l'exultet Vat. Barb. lat. 592 by Lucinia Speciale
Call Number: BX2045.E88 S64 1991