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Excerpt from The Missal of St. Augustine's Abbey Canterbury: With Excerpts From the Antiphonary and Lectionary of the Same Monastery, Edited With an Introductory Monograph, From a Manuscript in the Library, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge The evidence yielded by the rubrics of the second Proprium preceded in order of time the deductions suggested by those of the first. My attention had been drawn to them by the capitulum 'De sancta Cecilia, ' on fol. 132 v., and seriously engaged by the considerations it suggested. Next in order of time came the discovery of the textual capacity of a page of the exemplar of the Missal. As I had a few years previously learnt from another Corpus MS. how happy might be the results of such a discovery, I could but hope that, in some as yet unsuspected way, the fact now ascertained might open out to me the history of the document. Next came the very reassuring witness to the antiquity of the prototype which I discerned in the Mass 'In Veneratione sancti Michaelis archangeli' on fol. 122. As yet, however - I am now referring to a brief interval of work in an otherwise idle year, the year 1890 - I had not the remotest thought that prototype and exemplar could have been one and the same book; and, indeed, had the idea occurred to me, I should not as yet have felt justified in giving serious heed to it. Reverting to my collation of the two Propria, I next endeavoured to form a just estimate of the peculiarities of the verbal text of the Corpus MS. To this subject no fewer than sixty-six pages of the Introduction have been devoted; but the trouble was well bestowed. It issued in the certain conviction that the Corpus MS. embodied, as regards those of its Masses which must have come under the editorial cognizance of St Gregory, an authentic recension the very existence of which would seem never as yet to have been suspected. Reassured by the discovery of what now claims to be the purus putus textus of the Gregorian Sacramentary, I next turned my attention to those Masses in the Corpus MS. which prove the Missal of St Augustine's to have embodied, as regards its constituent, no less than its verbal, text, the results of a comparatively late revision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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