Ordinarius Strigoniensis - Monumenta Ritualia Hungarica 2.

During the second half of the Middle-Ages, the Ordinal was the most important directive text that regulated liturgical practice. One of the few surviving examples of this from Hungary is the Ordinarius Strigoniensis (Esztergom Ordinal), which was first printed between 1493 and 1496, but which was rooted in a considerable pre-existing written tradition-as may be assumed by the parallels suggested in many related texts. An immediate ancestor of this printed Ordinal underwent a process of significant modification-possibly to prepare for its first printed edition-but these editorial efforts did not represent a terminus a quo; rather they represented an intermediary phase which transmitted the peculiarities of a hand-written culture to a printed one. This process was characterised both by the conservation of some elements and the abolition of others thought to be obsolete for this particular purpose. The present volume is based on all the six known editions of the book printed in Nuremberg, Venice and Lyon until 1520. The text is edited and introduced by liturgical historian and Latin philologist, Miklós István Földváry (1978), adjutant professor of the Latin Department of the Faculty of Humanities at Loránd Eötvös University and member of the Department for Sacred Music at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest). He is one of the leading personalities for the reinvigoration of the Roman Rite and its Esztergom Use in Hungary.