Month: August 2020

Front facade of Houghton Library

An “Old Prayer Book”, Yet Not “a ‘dull’ one”: The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles

  By Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Department of Art & Architecture, Harvard University Edmund Bishop, the famous historian of Catholic liturgy, once posed the question: “Is the subject ‘An Old Prayer Book’ a ‘dull’ one?” Tongue-in-cheek, he replied that he would prefer the dullest form possible, namely, a tabulation of its contents, adding that “any subject…