![The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fecamp (Fecamp, Musee de la Benedictine, MS 186), II [containing parts II, III and IV]: 112](https://d3fa68hw0m2vcc.cloudfront.net/9b1/219945155.jpeg "The Ordinal of the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, Fecamp (Fecamp, Musee de la Benedictine, MS 186), II [containing parts II, III and IV]: 112")
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 579, the so-called 'Leofric Missal', is for the most part not really a missal, but a late-ninth or early-tenth-century combined sacramentary, pontifical and ritual with cues for the sung parts of various masses by the original, possibly French or Lotharingian, scribe. Subsequently, over the course of a hundred and thirty or so years, the sacramentary-pontifical-ritual was considerably augmented, first most probably for the successors of Plegmund, archbishop of Canterbury (890-923), the man for whom it was probably originally compiled, then later at Exeter for Bishop Leofric (1050-72).
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Nicholas Orchard is Deputy Slide Librarian, Courtauld Institute of Art.
