The Manuscript αM.524, Modena Codex: New, Complete Edition with Commentary, Including All Known Works Written or Expanded by Matheus de Perusio ed. by Jos Haring and Kees Boeke (review)

Abstract

Park, NY: New City Press, 1999–2001), with occasional changes made in light of the manuscript sources, and in other cases are newly translated by Johnson. In addition to translations of various Franciscan liturgical sources, liturgical texts are provided from the traditions of Chartres Cathedral and the Dominican Order of Preachers, giving a glimpse into the liturgical commemoration of Francis beyond the confines of the Order of Friars Minor. The Prayed Francis makes a compelling case for the importance of liturgy in forming the modes in which saints were understood and celebrated by both clergy and laity in the Middle Ages and beyond. Coupled with the Latin sources edited in Franciscus liturgicus, the volume offers an accessible entry into liturgical texts for St. Francis used in particular times and places by Franciscans and other Christians throughout Europe. It may be hoped that the volume will inspire scholars to undertake further projects to explore the liturgical legacies of the “great cloud of witnesses” celebrated throughout the Sanctoral cycle of the liturgical year.