1st Edition
The Use of Hereford The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite
Preface; Editorial note; Introduction; The British diocesan rites; The Use of Hereford; The sources; The printed Hereford Missal and Breviary; Modern editions of the Hereford Missal and Breviary; The ordinaries and canons of the Mass in WOc F.161 and 1502, and the canons in Ouc 78A and SFda 48243; The mass and office prayers; The lectionaries; The sequences; The invariable portions of the missal; The calendar and litany; Distinctive Hereford festa; Principal Hereford cults; The Cambro-British saints in the Hereford calendar; Late nova festa; Conclusion: ‘not entirely as they should do at Salisbury’; Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.
Biography
William Smith is a retired archivist. He read theology at St Peter’s College, Oxford, where his interest in medieval liturgical manuscripts began under the late Dr Thomas Parker of University College. His publications include papers in Analecta Bollandiana, Analecta Cartusiana, Ephemerides Liturgicæ, Cistercian Studies, and The Downside Review.
