The Sacramental Vision of Edward Bouverie Pusey

Abstract

devotion, as in the case of the Abancourt Hours. Bockmuehl notes that in the late fifteenth century Rouen was second only to Paris in the extensive production of Books of Hours. This edition produced by the Institute of Sino-Christian Studies in Hong Kong is remarkable for a number of reasons. Like the original manuscript itself, it is an object of considerable beauty. The Preface and Introduction in English, as have been briefly described here, are models of concise scholarship introducing this Latin work of late medieval lay devotion. The facsimile reproduction of the Latin manuscript is finely done on slightly tinted yellow paper, but perhaps above all the Chinese version will introduce this most characteristic work of late medieval aristocratic European devotion to a quite new scholarly readership in Hong Kong and China. This book represents thus a remarkable confluence of cultural moments across Christian history and the contemporary world. The Institute in Tao Fong Shan is to be congratulated on producing a book of beauty and collaborative scholarship that involves contributors not only from Hong Kong but also from the United Kingdom, China, and Germany.