Liturgy of St. James, in Greek, as celebrated on 23 Oct. on the island of Zante

The papers comprise:

• Liturgy of St. James, in Greek, as celebrated on 23 Oct. on the island of Zante, in two copies bought on Zante in July 1894 by F.E. Brightman.
• MS. Gr. liturg. d. 5 (18th century) contains the full text, complete with decorative initials and small marginal drawings of liturgical vessels and symbols in red.
• MS. Gr. liturg e. 7 contains the Deacon's part of the liturgy, with cues of the priest's prayers and a miniature of St. James 'the brother of Jesus', written out by Dionysius Lagodetes, priest, by 1860.

Frank Edward Brightman (1856-1932) was a liturgiologist, see the Dictionary of National Biography for details.

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Bequeathed by F.E. Brightman in 1932.

Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. II, nos. 47377-8.

See F. E. Brightman Liturgies Eastern and Western, i (Oxford, 1896), li-lii.