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Wickham Legg, J.
The Sarum Missal.
Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1916
Stock Code: 14184
First Edition. Large octavo, pp., 612. “Presentation Copy” embossed to title-page. Fore and tail-edges are uncut. Navy blue cloth covers with gilt titles, French fillets and Oxford coat of arms to spine, decorative motif and fillet to upper board. A clean, solid copy. The last major work of John Wickham Legg (1843 –1921) this is a new and revised edition of the pattern for worship in Latin, originating from St Osmund second bishop of Sarum [Salisbury Cathedral], based on the text of three original manuscripts. The Sarum Rite has a unique ecumenical position in that it is authorised for liturgical use in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Anglican Churches. This copy belonged to Frederick Brittain (1893-1969) the first lecturer in Medieval Latin at Cambridge University, and contains a letter from a subsequent owner dated 1991. £225.00