Mass by Design: Design Elements in Early Italian Mass Books

Andrew J. M. Irving

doi:10.1484/M.BIB-EB.5.124979

Mass by Design: Design Elements in Early Italian Mass Books

Andrew J. M. Irving

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Taking as its starting point the remarkable decision by Desiderius, the abbot of Montecassino (1058–1087), to supply individual genre-specific liturgical books for use at mass, dividing the integrated multi-textual missale plenarium into sacramentary, epistolary, evangelistary, and gradual, this essay addresses the question of text integration and scribal practice by examining evidence of the impact of the decision at Montecassino, before setting it in the broader context of multi-genre, pluri-textual missals in the Beneventan Zone, and, on the Italian peninsula as a whole. Sophisticated combinations of techniques of textual integration and distinction in mass books are identified and found to dominate far earlier than earlier accounts of mass book develop would suggest.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Scribes and the Presentation of Texts (from Antiquity to c. 1550)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 20th Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine
Editors	Barbara A. Shailor, C.W. Dutschke
Publisher	Brepols Publishers
Pages	251-274
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Print)	978-2-503-59516-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BIB-EB.5.124979
Publication status	Published - 24-Dec-2021
Event	XXe Colloque international de paléographie latine: Les scribes et la présentation du texte - Yale University, New Haven, United States Duration: 6-Sept-2017 → 8-Sept-2017 http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/yale/index.htm

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Name	Bibliologia
Volume	65

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Conference	XXe Colloque international de paléographie latine
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Haven
Period	06/09/2017 → 08/09/2017
Internet address	http://www.palaeographia.org/cipl/yale/index.htm

Keywords

Medieval Liturgy
Missals
Codicology
Medieval Manuscripts
Medieval Italy

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Irving, A. J. M. (2021). Mass by Design: Design Elements in Early Italian Mass Books. In B. A. Shailor, & C. W. Dutschke (Eds.), Scribes and the Presentation of Texts (from Antiquity to c. 1550): Proceedings of the 20th Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine (pp. 251-274). (Bibliologia; Vol. 65). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BIB-EB.5.124979

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Irving, AJM 2021, Mass by Design: Design Elements in Early Italian Mass Books. in BA Shailor & CW Dutschke (eds), Scribes and the Presentation of Texts (from Antiquity to c. 1550): Proceedings of the 20th Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine. Bibliologia, vol. 65, Brepols Publishers, pp. 251-274, XXe Colloque international de paléographie latine, New Haven, United States, 06/09/2017. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BIB-EB.5.124979

Mass by Design: Design Elements in Early Italian Mass Books. / Irving, Andrew J. M.
Scribes and the Presentation of Texts (from Antiquity to c. 1550): Proceedings of the 20th Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine. ed. / Barbara A. Shailor; C.W. Dutschke. Brepols Publishers, 2021. p. 251-274 (Bibliologia; Vol. 65).

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