medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
---- SHERRY L REAMES <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Pfaff (whose main focus is the manuscripts, remember) may well have made some
> errors about the dates of the subsequent printed editions, but such errors
> are much less egregious than John suggests when he ridicules Pfaff for
> missing the 1502 edition of the Sarum processional [one copy of which
> survives, according to Bailey] and calls the result "calamitous on p.549 when > an argument is constructed upon it." In fact, the error detracts only
> slightly from Pfaff's brief argument on 549-50 about the preponderance of
> manuscript service books over printed ones in the chapels of Lady Margaret
> Beaufort.
That only one copy survives of the 1502 Sarum processional is rather less relevant than the fact that a facsimile edition* of it has been published. More to the point, it is still in print! Yes, it was produced by musicologists [Henderson's edition of the 1508 processional - chosen because he believed it to be the earliest - omits the music], and is thus a little off Pfaff's radar, but Pfaff directs the beginner in liturgy to Harper, "Forms and Orders". On pp.215-6 Harper has a table comparing the contents of the 1502 facsimile, Henderson's edition, and Wordsworth's 1901 edition of the Salisbury MS. Moreover, as I pointed out, the title of Wordsworth's book makes explicit reference to the 1502 processional ("Ceremonies and Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury: Edited from the fifteenth century MS no. 148, with additions from the cathedral records, and woodcuts from the Sarum processionale of 1502".) So the 1502 processional has been known to scholarship for over a hundred years, and everyone with an interest in the Sarum Use knows about the facsimile edition (they do, don't they?) The reason I boggled at the error was that it should not have been possible to have made it.
*[G. Rastall,] Processionale ad Usum Sarum 1502 (Clarabricken, 1980).
John Briggs
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