The old service-books of the English Church . to destruction about Christmas, 1549, it isonly due to the accidental preservation of a solitary copyof Diurnale Sarum, pro idgesturi commoditate redactumprinted at Paris, T^°, 1512, for H. Jacob in St. PaulsChurchyard, near the new [St. Pauls] schools (foundedthat year) being preserved at Lambeth (xliii. i. 47), thatwe know what such a book was like. A chance observationin its Preface tells us that there had been at least twoprevious editions, the first of which had been in formrudiset lacera,and had appeared multisabhincannis,many years ago. The
The old service-books of the English Church . to destruction about Christmas, 1549, it isonly due to the accidental preservation of a solitary copyof Diurnale Sarum, pro idgesturi commoditate redactumprinted at Paris, T^°, 1512, for H. Jacob in St. PaulsChurchyard, near the new [St. Pauls] schools (foundedthat year) being preserved at Lambeth (xliii. i. 47), thatwe know what such a book was like. A chance observationin its Preface tells us that there had been at least twoprevious editions, the first of which had been in formrudiset lacera,and had appeared multisabhincannis,many years ago. The preservation of a Dutch booksellersday-book proves that such a book was sold in Oxford inFebruary, 1520, for is. 4^.1 The edition of 1512 wascorrected by Master William Cowper. (There was aprebendary of that name at Lincoln in 1512.) The copy at Lambeth measures only 4 inches by2| inches, and contains 312 leaves, of which 231 arenumbered. Like the Breviary, it consists of four sections 1 Oxford Hist. Soc., Collectanea, i. p. 87; ii. p. THE VARIOUS BOOKS : DIURNALE 101 —(i) Temporale (from Advent to Twenty-fifth Sunday afterTrinity), with anniversary of Dedication of a Church, andCommemorations of St. Thomas (misprinted scipauli),Chad (for Lichfield), and Etheldreda (for Ely); (ii) Kalen-dariiwi, with Prima dies mensis, etc., at top, andAque decens potus at bottom of the months, and ithas the good rule Cum Domino psalles; (iii)Psalterium, with Seven Penitential Psalms and Litany,and Offices of the Dead, with Commune Sanctorum, andthe non-Sarum commune unius Matrone at the end;and (iv) Proprium de Sanctis, In part i. fo. 51, Gratieante prandium are printed at Easter. Although the Psalterium provides the psalms, &c, forNocturns and Compline, the book justifies its title, as abook of Day Hours only, in the other sections, for(with the exception of occasional reference to theHistories in the rubrics) it passes over the Mattinsand Compline services of the day. Still the Psal
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