Missale ad usum Ecclesie westmonasteriensis . NOV 15 1934 73 6/ LONDON :HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY, ST. martins LANE. PREFACE. The first liturgical book named in the inventory of the vestry ofWestminster Abbey, that was made in 1388, is : unum bonum mis-sale et grande ex dono quondam Nicholai Lytlington abbatis.*Again, in the inventory, taken at the suppression of the convent,about 1540, the first book named is the Masse Booke of AbbottNicholas Lytlyngtons gyffte, ii. folio ad te leuaui.^ There can belittle doubt that these entries describe the book which has remain
Missale ad usum Ecclesie westmonasteriensis . NOV 15 1934 73 6/ LONDON :HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY, ST. martins LANE. PREFACE. The first liturgical book named in the inventory of the vestry ofWestminster Abbey, that was made in 1388, is : unum bonum mis-sale et grande ex dono quondam Nicholai Lytlington abbatis.*Again, in the inventory, taken at the suppression of the convent,about 1540, the first book named is the Masse Booke of AbbottNicholas Lytlyngtons gyffte, ii. folio ad te leuaui.^ There can belittle doubt that these entries describe the book which has remaineddown to our time in the possession of the Dean and Chapter ofWestminster. The second leaf after the calendar begins: ad televavi^ and the book can be traced to Nicholas Lytlington andWestminster in many ways. The illuminated borders which sur-round not a few of the leaves frequently bear the cypher ofNicholas Lytlington, crowned (see plate 3) a cypher whichalso appears in the buildings set up by him in the Abbey itself;among these is
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