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Processional chants in English monastic sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2009

Malcolm Floyd
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Although the loss of manuscript liturgical sources from medieval English monastic houses has no doubt been very great, a relatively large number of processionals has survived, more than monastic antiphoners, for example. The purpose of this inventory is to help make the contents of these important sources better known. Their secular counterparts, especially the processionals of Sarum, or Salisbury use, have so far been more familiar, through the work of Terence Bailey, various text editions, and the recently published facsimile of the printed Sarum processional of 1502. By contrast, it is not very easy even to draw up a reliably complete list of monastic processionals.

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Journal of the Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society , Volume 13 , November 1990 , pp. 1 - 48
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© The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society 1990

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[1] Bailey, Terence: The Processions of Sarum and the Western Church (Toronto 1971)Google Scholar.

[2] Henderson, W.G.: Manuale et processionale ad usum insignis ecclesiae eboracensis, Surtees Society 63 (Durham and London 1875)Google Scholar; Henderson, W.G.: Processionale ad usum insignis et preclarae ecclesiae Sarum (Leeds 1882)Google Scholar; Wordsworth, C.: Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, edited from the Fifteenth-Century Manuscript No. 148 (Cambridge 1901)Google Scholar.

[3] Processionale ad usum Sarum [London: Richard Pynson, 1502] (Clarabricken: Boethius Press, 1980)Google Scholar.

[4] My M.Mus. study ‘English Monastic Processionals’ (Exeter University 1984)Google Scholar, from which the inventory is derived, has information on a wider range of books than the present catalogue, including sources without music. Michel Huglo's forthcoming catalogue of processionals, for R.I.S.M., will fill a significant gap in our control of sources.

[5] The text is edited by Legg, J. Wickham: The Processional of the Nuns of Chester, Henry Bradshaw Society 18 (London 1899)Google Scholar.