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Edmund Bishop Liturgica Historica; Papers on the Liturgy and Religious Life of the Western Church.
By Edmund Bishop.
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1918.
Paginates: xiv, 506 pages, 1 leaf.
First Edition.
Complete with the dust jacket.
DG, Very Good.
Volume near fine.
Bound in bright blue cloth.
Deckled edge.
A touch of fading to the tip and bottom of the spine.
Internally like new.
The volume measures 25.7 x 17.5 x 5.5 cm.
Each leaf measures 250 x 167 mm.
Edmund Bishop (1846 - 1917) was an English Roman Catholic historian of Christian liturgy.
In 1864 Bishop was hired by the Education Department of the Privy Council Office, where he was employed for the next 20 years.
In 1867 he was received into the Catholic Church.
During his time in the Education office he laid the foundations of his wide and varied learning.
The easy office hours, after he had risen rapidly to a high place in his department, together with his vacations, left sufficient leisure for study, and he used this time fruitfully.
He bought books, copied documents at both the British Museum and the British Public Record Office, reading assiduously and with rapidity.
Gifted with a phenomenal memory, he never forgot what he read.
It was during this period that he transcribed, analysed and annotated his monumental Collectio Britannica, containing copies of 300 papal letters dating from the 5th to the 11th centuries.
Unable to find a publisher in England, he handed over the whole document to Monumenta Germaniae Historica, who released the work.
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