Durham Rite (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Adrian Fortescue · 1913
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Description
The Durham Rite is known first from the Ritual of the Church of Durham, also called the Ritual of King Aelfrith. A Catholic Encyclopedia entry dates the manuscript to the early ninth century and keeps it in the Durham cathedral library. It holds chapters, chants, and above all collects from Epiphany to Easter, then a proper and a common of saints, with many forms for blessings. Most of it bears an interlinear Anglo-Saxon translation.
Blank pages later gained hymns, exorcisms, and a list of contractions from canon law books, added by later scribes. The entry traces the rite's links to Durham and prints related texts from the Surtees Society. For students of old English worship, it opens a service book written when Northumbria still prayed in two tongues.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Adrian Fortescue |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |