File 199 - Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler

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IE IJA J/10/199

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Letters to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler

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  • 7 February 1965 - 11 February 1981 (Creation)

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Letters (some incomplete) to Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ from Dr Christopher Hohler (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and Oslo) on a wide range of topics including:

  • the Corpus (Christi) Missal; Drummond Missal, Winchester Troper and the Trim Breviary;
  • Arrouasian books in England and abroad;
  • Hadcock and Gwynn’s Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland;
  • Victorine liturgical books;
  • the Roslyn Missal;
  • the ‘Pet[rine]’ and ‘Ephe[sine]’ liturgies;
  • the Sarum Missal;
  • Gilbert of Limerick’s ‘Prologue’ and the Synod of Cashel;
  • Roman and ‘Gallican’ rites;
  • his views on Sts. Patrick and Palladius;

Includes offprint of chapter by Dr Hohler entitled ‘Some Service Books of the Later Saxon Church’ from David Parsons (ed.) Tenth Century Studies (1975), pp.60 – 83 (24pp) with notes, pp.217 – 227 (11pp). Also includes notes by Fr Aubrey Gwynn SJ on the Hohler correspondence (3pp & 3 envelopes).

Article entitled ‘A breviary from St Mary’s Abbey, Trim’, Rioght na Midhe, 290-298, by Fr Aubrey Gwynn.

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1999

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