The Bobbio Missal
Subtitle: Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology)
Contributors: Yitzhak Hen (Editor); Rob Meens (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521823937
Subjects: Acquisitions & collection development; Literary reference works; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Palaeography (history of writing); Religion; Congresses; Texts; Catholic Church; Religion - Church History; French; Liturgy; Gaul; Christian Rituals & Practice - General; Christianity - History - General; Western Europe - General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Bobbio missal; Agnosticism; History and criticism; Missals
First sentence: In June 1686, on the way back from his manuscript-collecting campaign in Italy, the Benedictine monk Jean Mabillon visited the monastery of Bobbio.