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The Henry Bradshaw Society is a British-based text publication society founded in 1890 for the scholarly editing and publication of rare liturgical texts .

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15-818: An initial meeting to plan the Henry Bradshaw Society took place in London on 3 July 1890, after which provisional subscriptions were solicited. The general meeting to inaugurate the Society took place on 25 November 1890 in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster Abbey . A committee was finalised and a programme of publications worked out. One of the models for the society was the Durham-based Surtees Society , formed in 1834, which in turn received assistance from officers of

30-399: A membership of all clergy who are licensed to a parish within the deanery, plus elected lay members from every parish. They were established in the 1970s. The term is also often used to refer to the house, or official residence, of the dean of a cathedral. The term is also used to apply to the ecclesiastical districts of Jersey and Guernsey , which are Royal Peculiars and whose deans hold

45-708: Is a room in what was formerly the abbot 's house of Westminster Abbey . The room overlooks the main west door of the abbey. It was added in the fourteenth century. The abbot's house was made the deanery when the monastery was dissolved in 1540 . Henry IV of England died in the Jerusalem Chamber on 20 March 1413, and the Committee to write the King James Version of the Bible met there in 1611. The Upper House of Convocation often met there, and

60-903: Is an ecclesiastical entity in the Catholic Church , the Eastern Orthodox Church , the Anglican Communion , the Evangelical Church in Germany , and the Church of Norway . A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a dean . In the Catholic Church , Can.374 §2 of the Code of Canon Law grants to bishops the possibility to join together several neighbouring parishes into special groups, such as vicariates forane , or deaneries. Each deanery

75-413: Is headed by a vicar forane , also called a dean or archpriest , who is—according to the definition provided in canon 553 —a priest appointed by the bishop after consultation with the priests exercising ministry in the deanery. Canon 555 defines the duties of a dean as: Additionally, the dean must follow the particular norms of the diocese . Canon 555 also particularly mentions that a dean must visit

90-534: The Bannatyne Club . The foundation of the new society was also linked, more by overlapping interests than organizational models, to the body then known as the St Paul's Ecclesiological Society . John Wickham Legg , who had played a significant role in the re-establishment of that society in 1879 after a decade or so of limbo, also became an important founding member of the Henry Bradshaw Society. The Society

105-609: The Bibliothèque nationale , Paris, Antonio Maria Ceriani of the Ambrosian Library , Milan and others Catholics such as W.H. James Weale , Edmund Bishop , Dom Aidan Gasquet , the abbé Louis Duchesne , and Dom Hildebrand de Hemptinne , abbot of Maredsous . The first volumes were to be printed in 500 copies and at the next meeting the Council fixed the individual subscription rate as 12 guineas (£12 12 s ). By

120-674: The Missale Romanum , printed in Milan in 1474 (1899–1907) and the fifteenth-century Processional of the Nuns of Chester (1899). Although the Society fell into something of a slump after the Second World War, it was revived with some vigour in the 1980s. The latest volume to be published, in 2019, is numbered 124. The Society's principal honorary officers currently include: Jerusalem Chamber The Jerusalem Chamber

135-852: The Westminster Assembly met there from the Winter of 1643 until its dissolution. The Jerusalem Chamber is referenced in act IV of William Shakespeare ’s play Henry IV, Part 2 . This Anglicanism -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Deanery Jus novum ( c.  1140 -1563) Jus novissimum ( c.  1563 -1918) Jus codicis (1918-present) Other Sacraments Sacramentals Sacred places Sacred times Supra-diocesan/eparchal structures Particular churches Juridic persons Philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law Clerics Office Juridic and physical persons Associations of

150-560: The hundreds . The title "dean" (Latin decanus ) may derive from the custom of dividing a hundred into ten tithings . In medieval times rural deans acted as officers of the diocesan bishop , but archdeacons gradually took over most of their duties. However, the office was revived during the 19th century. Modifications to deanery boundaries may be made according to the provisions of the Archdeaconries and Rural Deaneries Act 1874 ( 37 & 38 Vict. c. 63). The deanery synod has

165-1109: The Ambrosian Library), the Tracts of Clement Maydeston (1894), the Winchester Troper , the Martyrology of Gorman (1895; from the Royal Library , Brussels), the Missal of Robert of Jumièges (1896; from Rouen public library), the Irish Liber Hymnorum (1898; from Trinity College Library , Dublin), the Rosslyn Missal (1899; from the Advocates Library , Edinburgh), the Coronation Book of Charles V of France (1899; British Library , Cotton Tiberius MS B.VIII),

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180-676: The end of the 19th century some 19 volumes had been issued, three of which contained an edition of the Westminster Missal , given to the abbey by Abbot Nicholas Lytlington , abbot 1362–1386, and builder of the Jerusalem Chamber , where the Society was publicly launched. Other early editions were of the coronation rites of King Charles I (1892), the Martiloge in Englysshe (1893), the Antiphonary of Bangor (1893–96; from

195-614: The faithful Pars dynamica (trial procedure) Canonization Election of the Roman Pontiff Academic degrees Journals and Professional Societies Faculties of canon law Canonists Institute of consecrated life Society of apostolic life Autocephaly recognized by some autocephalous Churches de jure : Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches: Spiritual independence recognized by Georgian Orthodox Church: Semi-Autonomous: A deanery (or decanate )

210-474: The parishes of the district in accord with the regulations made by the diocesan bishop. In the Church of England and many other Anglican churches a deanery is a group of parishes forming a district within an archdeaconry . The more formal term, rural deanery , is less often used, though the superintendent of a deanery is the Rural Dean . Rural deaneries are very ancient and originally corresponded with

225-523: Was named after Henry Bradshaw (1831–1886), Librarian of the Cambridge University Library , who had been interested in early printing and in bibliographic description. This latter passion led to his becoming familiar with many European libraries, where he also became aware of holdings of early English liturgical manuscripts. The promised subscribers including many Anglican bishops and other dignitaries, but also Léopold Delisle of

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