The Augustinian use of Oseney Abbey : a study of the Oseney Ordinal, processional and tonale (Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson c. 939)
Only one liturgical manuscript from Oseney Abbey survives, a compendium bound in the fifteenth century whose main parts are a text known as the Oseney Ordinal, a processional and a tonale; in addition it contains a manual, a collection of vesper responsory and alleluia verses, a kalendar and extracts from the customary and diurnal, as well as miscellanea copied into the manuscript at a later date. The components of the manuscript are of various dates from the late thirteenth century onwards. The principal aim of this thesis is to present edited texts of the three main portions of the manuscript, the ordinal, processional and tonale, together with the kalendar, the extracts from the customary and diurnal, and some of the shorter texts in the manuscript. In addition these texts are comprehensively indexed. Some attempt has also been made to identify a putative 'Oseney group' of related manuscripts and a hypothesis is advanced concerning the existence of a group of Augustinian houses with a related use which shows some degree of independence from contemporary secular and monastic uses. Although other writers have identified a group of Augustinian uses related to the ordinal of St Ruf (known as the Letbert ordinal),
Morris, Timothy Meeson
Liturgy ; Oseney Abbey ; Augustinian canons
The Augustinian use of Oseney Abbey : a study of the Oseney Ordinal, processional and tonale (Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson c. 939). Only one liturgical manuscript from Oseney Abbey survives, a compendium bound in the fifteenth century whose main parts are a text known as the Oseney Ordinal, a processional and a tonale; in addition it contains a manual, a collection of vesper responsory and alleluia verses, a kalendar and extracts from the customary and diurnal, as well as miscellanea copied into the manuscript at a later date. The components of the manuscript are of various dates from the late thirteenth century onwards. The principal aim of this thesis is to present edited texts of the three main portions of the manuscript, the ordinal, processional and tonale, together with the kalendar, the extracts from the customary and diurnal, and some of the shorter texts in the manuscript. In addition these texts are comprehensively indexed. Some attempt has also been made to identify a putative 'Oseney group' of related manuscripts and a hypothesis is advanced concerning the existence of a group of Augustinian houses with a related use which shows some degree of independence from contemporary secular and monastic uses. Although other writers have identified a group of Augustinian uses related to the ordinal of St Ruf (known as the Letbert ordinal),
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