The Winchcombe Sacramentary: Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, 127 [105]

Earliest surviving English sacramentary containing English and continental liturgical rite.

During the tenth century, there were intimate connections between the English Church and the French abbey of Fleury, which was at that time one of the foremost intellectual centres in Europe. A number of leading English churchmen,such as Archbishop Oswald (d.992) and Abbot Germanus, went to Fleury for their training, and it was from Fleury that Abbo, perhaps the most learned man in the Europe of his d...