Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy

Roger E. Reynolds is Senior Fellow in Medieval Law and Liturgy at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and a Professor of Medieval Studies in the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Contents: Preface; Part I Visigothica: The 'Isidorian' Epistula ad Massonam on lapsed clerics: notes on its early manuscript and textual transmission; The Visigothic liturgy in the realm of Charlemagne; Baptismal rite and Paschal vigil in transition in medieval Spain: a new text in Visigothic script; Visigothic-script remains of a Pandect Bible and the Collectio Canonum Hispana in Lucca; A Visigothic-script folio of a Carolingian collection of canon law; Utrecht fragments in Visigothic script; An early rule for Canons Regular from Santa Maria de l'Estany. Part II Beneventana: Monumenta liturgica Beneventana: new directions; The liturgy in Rome in the 11th century: past research and future opportunities; A homily in Beneventan script on the sacred orders, canonical hours, and clerical vestments (Vat. Borghese 186); Corpus Christi in Agnone; Canonistica Beneventana; The transmission of the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis in Italy from the 10th to the 12th century; A monastic florilegium from the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis at Montecassino; Further evidence for the influence of the Hibernensis in Southern Italy; The South Italian Collection in 5 Books and its derivatives: a South Italian appendix to the Collection in 74 Titles; The South Italian Collection in 5 Books and its derivatives: Maastricht excerpta; Gratian's Decretum and the Code of Justinian in Beneventan script; Addenda; Indexes.