Research Catalog

Title

The rites of Durham / William Claxton ; edited by Margaret Harvey and Lynda Rollason.

Author

Claxton, William, -1597

Publication

• Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harvey, Margaret (Margaret M.)
• Rollason, Lynda

Description

xvii, 775 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, 3 unnumbered folded leaves : illustrations, plans; 25 cm.

Summary

"The importance of the Rites of Durham as a description of a monastic cathedral on the eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized. This new edition, the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the Rites in the context of the religious tensions of the Reformation and attributing it to the late sixteenth-century Durham antiquary, William Claxton; a new text based on manuscripts not known to previous editors and giving the full range of variants; a detailed commentary explaining the text and testing out its accuracy against other evidence, including traces in the fabric of the cathedral and its precinct; thirty-six plates showing early drawings of the cathedral and its precinct, surviving objects relating to those described in the text; and manuscript illuminations casting light on the descriptions to be found there; and five plans to facilitate understanding of the text.In addition, a series of appendices contains a full edition of the related text which describes the windows of Durham Cathedral and its precinct; the first ever edition of the letters of William Claxton; an edition of the descriptions of the bells and the organs of the cathedral added to the Rites by the Durham antiquary James Mickleton the elder (1638-93); and a detailed analysis of the earliest surviving manuscript of the Rites, which is in the form of a paper roll. The volume is completed by a comprehensive index" -- Provided by publisher's website.

Series Statement

• The Publications of the Surtees Society, 0307-5362 ; vol. 226
• The Catholic Record Society. Records series ; vol. 88

Uniform Title

• Publications of the Surtees Society ; v. 226.
• Catholic Record Society publications. Records series ; v. 88.

Subject

Durham Cathedral

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 715-752) and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-6177

ISBN

• 0854440828
• 9780854440825

LCCN

2020445992

OCLC

1145922669

Author

Claxton, William, -1597, author.

Title

The rites of Durham / William Claxton ; edited by Margaret Harvey and Lynda Rollason.

Publisher

Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Publications of the Surtees Society, 0307-5362 ; vol. 226

The Catholic Record Society. Records series ; vol. 88

Publications of the Surtees Society ; v. 226.

Catholic Record Society publications. Records series ; v. 88.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 715-752) and index.

Added Author

Harvey, Margaret (Margaret M.), editor.

Rollason, Lynda, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6177