Stokes & Strachan (eds.), Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus II (1903) — unedited OCR

Half-uncovering here. “Let my prayer be directed to you, O Lord, until evening” . . . thrice f. 17b sung. Here the linen cloth is lifted from the chalice.

Full uncovering here. ‘Show us your mercy, O Lord, and f. 20a 5 grant us your salvation.’

It is here that the ‘Dignum’ of the addition comes into it, if it is ‘Per quem’ f. 22a that is in its continuation there. “Through whom the angels praise your majesty” etc.

It is here that the ‘Dignum’ of the addition comes into it, if it is ‘Sanctus’ f. 22b that is after it there. “Holy, holy, Lord God of hosts.” 10 Sung thrice. It is here that the chief(?) Host on the chalice is lifted f. 33 a up, and the half of the Bread is submerged in the chalice.

It is here that the Bread is broken. “They knew the Lord”, alleluia, in the breaking of bread, alleluia. ‘The bread which we break is the body of our Lord Jesus Christ’, alleluia. »5 The bald one of all wrote it. f. 36a

It is here that the salt is put into the mouth of the child(?). ‘Ephpheta, which is, f. 60a Be opened.’ The ephpheta is the offering in honour of sweetness.

It is here that the anointing is done. ‘I anoint you with the oil and with the chrism f. 57a of salvation’ etc.

^o Half-uncovering here’’. f. 17 b

Full uncovering here’. f. 20a

It is here that the Dignum of the addition comes into it, if it is Per f. 22 a quem that is in its continuation there’’.

It is here that the Dignum of the addition comes into it, if it is f. 22b

25 Sanctits that is after it there’.

Ter canitur. It is here that the chief (?)"" Host on the chalice is lifted f. 33a up and the half of the Bread is submerged in the chalice. It is here that the Bread is broken. It is here that the salt is put into the mouth of the child (?). f. 50a

30 It is here that the anointing is done. f. 57 a

» leg. Issund

*> = iiina diud idi, cf. Wb. 4« 39

<= two or perhaps three letters have been erased before tvuir ; probably four letters, Gwynn ** leg. fobdidither

• leg. cJiailiuch

’ i(p<t>aed, Mark vii. 34

K MS. intogath, Gwynn

•" the chalice is half uncovered before the reading of the lesson from John c. 6

’ the chalice is wholly uncovered after that lesson is read

• ’ The clause Per quem (Majestatem tuam laudant angeli) seems to have been used only on saints’ days and festivals, and then the prayer R. Dignum et iustum est. Sac. Vere dignum et iustum est, etc. with additions to its ordinary form, was introduced into the Ordo Missae

•^ The celebrant appears to have had several Hosts, of which one, destined for the priest himself, was larger than the others destined for the communicants. W.S.

252 Old-Irish Prose.

6. THE  TRACT  ON  THE  MASS  IN  THE  STOWE  MISSAL.