Officium Ecclesiasticum Abbatum Secundum Usum Eveshamensis Monasterii

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Excerpt from Officium Ecclesiasticum Abbatum Secundum Usum Eveshamensis Monasterii: Nunc Primum Typis MandatumThe heading of the book itself might perhaps be held to show the name by which it should be known and in the present edition it has been adopted as a formal title. But it may perhaps be doubtful, as will presently appear, whether this heading was originally intended to cover the whole book it seems perhaps most likely that it applied, at least in an especial degree, to the first and second portions of its contents. In any case, the title is too long and too cumbrous for frequent repetition and a shortened form of it could hardly be less vague than the name by which it has been thought most convenient to denote the book for the purpose of this preface, and of the notes appended to the text.The Evesham book is among the manuscripts which were left, in 1691, by Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, to the Library of the University of Oxford, over which, as Bodley's Librarian, he had presided from 1652 to 1660. From a note in Barlow's own handwriting, it appears that he became possessed of the book in or before the year 1651 but there is nothing to show whence he obtained it. Its contents, however, give ample evidence of the fact that it was intended for use in the Benedictine monastery of St Mary and St nin at Evesham in Worcestershire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.