The old service-books of the English Church . the Exeter Pontifical, printed by Mr. Barnes, is anoffice : Ad laudandum Dominiim pro miraculo; and also aBenedictio pecorwn : i i Domine, sancte Pater, omnipotens,eterne Deus, defende pecora nostra, per hanc creaturamsalts et aqne, a rapacibus hiporum ?norsibus et canum etc.,both of which offices were probably unusual. The following list of the contents of a Pontifical hasbeen drawn up from the two Museum MSS., Lansd., 451,and Add., 6,157, and from the tables of the contents ofvarious Pontificals in Mr. Freres Pontifical Services,more especially f
The old service-books of the English Church . the Exeter Pontifical, printed by Mr. Barnes, is anoffice : Ad laudandum Dominiim pro miraculo; and also aBenedictio pecorwn : i i Domine, sancte Pater, omnipotens,eterne Deus, defende pecora nostra, per hanc creaturamsalts et aqne, a rapacibus hiporum ?norsibus et canum etc.,both of which offices were probably unusual. The following list of the contents of a Pontifical hasbeen drawn up from the two Museum MSS., Lansd., 451,and Add., 6,157, and from the tables of the contents ofvarious Pontificals in Mr. Freres Pontifical Services,more especially from that of Bishop Clifford, which, inits agreement with the Lansdowne MS., forms the basisof the list now given. This list may be taken to repre-sent the contents of a very ample medieval Pontifical ;but the very remarkable fact is to be noted, that no re-maining Pontifical appears to contain the text for all theservices that a medieval Bishop would have required. The Contents of a Pontifical. The flumtPfttioTKl 11numuraiio PLACING RELICS IN AN ALTAR FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY PONTIFICAL Brit. Mus. MS. Lansd. y,v, leaf 136 b
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