Christopher A. Jones

Two composite texts from Archbishop Wulfstan's ‘commonplace book’: the De ecclesiastica consuetudine and the Institutio beati Amalarii de ecclesiasticis officiis

The great monument of tenth-century Anglo-Saxon monastic liturgy, the Regularis concordia , has been particularly fortunate in its twentieth-century devotees. The most prominent was Dom Thomas Symons, who published numerous learned articles on the text and, in 1953, an edition and translation that are still immensely valuable. More recently, Lucia Kornexl has re-edited the Concordia with its continuous Old English gloss from London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. iii, and provided an exhaustive collation against the second Latin copy in London, British Library, Cotton Faustina B. iii. Building on this detailed editorial work, Kornexls introductory chapters also suggest new and helpful ways of regarding the transmission of this text and the authority of its two extant manuscripts.