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Informationen zum Autor Dr Yitzhak Hen is in the Department of History! Ben-Gurion University of the Negev! Israel. Dr Rob Meens is in the Department of History! University of Utrecht! The Netherlands. Klappentext Copied in southeastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century! the Bobbio Missal is one of the most important liturgical manuscripts from that period. It is a unique combination of lectionary and sacramentary! to which much canonical and non-canonical material was added. The extent of specialized knowledge! provided by the scholars writing for this book! contributes considerably to our understanding of this complex manuscript! as well as of the broader field of early medieval liturgy and religious culture which it bears witness to. Zusammenfassung The Bobbio Missal! written around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century! is one of the most intriguing liturgical manuscripts to have been produced in Merovingian Francia. This book draws together a wide range of specialist knowledge to provide a major re-evaluation of this complex manuscript. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: The Bobbio Missal - from Mabillon onwards Yitzhak Hen; 2. The script of the Bobbio Missal Rosamond McKitterick; 3. The palimpsest leaves in the Bobbio Missal David Ganz; 4. Reading and writing the Bobbio Missal: punctuation, word separation and animated initials Marco Mostert; 5. Liturgical Latin in the Bobbio Missal Els Rose; 6. Additions to the Bobbio Missal: De dies malus and 'Joca monachorum' Charles D. Wright and Roger Wright; 7. The Liturgy of the Bobbio Missal Yitzhak Hen; 8. Reforming the clergy: a context for the use of the Bobbio penitential Rob Meens; 9. Doctrinal and theological themes in the prayers of the Bobbio Missal Louise P. M. Batstone; 10. The Missa pro principe in the Bobbio Missal Mary Garrison; 11. Liturgy in the Rhône Valley and the Bobbio Missal Ian N. Wood; 12. Conclusion Yitzhak Hen and Rob Meens; Manuscript index; General index....
