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The rites of Durham / William Claxton ; edited by Margaret Harvey and Lynda Rollason.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Claxton, William, -1597, author.
- Series:
- Publications of the Surtees Society ; v. 226.
- Catholic Record Society publications. Records series ; v. 88.
- The Publications of the Surtees Society, 0307-5362 ; vol. 226
- The Catholic Record Society. Records series ; vol. 88
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Durham Cathedral.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 775 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, 3 unnumbered folded leaves : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The importance of the Rites of Durham as a description of a monastic cathedral on the eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized. This new edition, the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the Rites in the context of the religious tensions of the Reformation and attributing it to the late sixteenth-century Durham antiquary, William Claxton; a new text based on manuscripts not known to previous editors and giving the full range of variants; a detailed commentary explaining the text and testing out its accuracy against other evidence, including traces in the fabric of the cathedral and its precinct; thirty-six plates showing early drawings of the cathedral and its precinct, surviving objects relating to those described in the text; and manuscript illuminations casting light on the descriptions to be found there; and five plans to facilitate understanding of the text.In addition, a series of appendices contains a full edition of the related text which describes the windows of Durham Cathedral and its precinct; the first ever edition of the letters of William Claxton; an edition of the descriptions of the bells and the organs of the cathedral added to the Rites by the Durham antiquary James Mickleton the elder (1638-93); and a detailed analysis of the earliest surviving manuscript of the Rites, which is in the form of a paper roll. The volume is completed by a comprehensive index" -- Provided by publisher's website.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 715-752) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0854440828
- 9780854440825
- OCLC:
- 1145922669
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