AT a Meeting of the SURTEES SOCIETY, held in the Castle of Durham, on Tuesday, 2nd December, 1872, Mr. W. Henderson in the Chair, it was ordered :

"That the York Missal should be edited for the Society by the Rev. Dr. Henderson of Leeds."

JAMES RAINE, Secretary.

PREFACE.

THIS Edition of the York Missal has been made from a collation of the manuscript Missals known to exist, and from the five printed editions.

I have to express my sense of the invariable courtesy I have met with from the owners of these Manuscripts, who have most liberally placed them at my disposal for the purposes of this edition: especially to the Dean and Chapter of York; the Rev. John Gott, Vicar of Leeds; the Master and Fellows of University College, Oxford; the Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; the Rector and Officers of the College of Stonyhurst; the Curators of the Bodleian; and Mr. Kerslake, of Bristol.

With regard to the collation of these originals, it should be said, that as a rule, mere verbal variations of rubrics have not been noted, except in the case of the Canon of the Mass; but any variation of expression which rendered the meaning at all more clear, or seemed on any other ground worth preserving, has been recorded.

The greatest amount of additional rubric is given in MS. D., now in the library of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, which is described below; the additions and variations supplied by this Manuscript are of a most interesting character, and give very fully the Use in the Cathedral Church at the date when the Missal was written.

The variations as to Ceremonial of the Canon of the Mass are fully given in parallel columns. Of the seven manuscript Missals,

three have no rubrics in the Canon, one is wholly defective in this part, and two more partially so. Two only have the complete Canon with rubrics. To these two Missals must be added one of the manuscript Breviaries in the Library of the York Minster, which has the Canon with full rubrics. All these rubrics are given in full, parallel with those of the printed editions.

It will be found that there was as great variety in Ceremonial in respect of the Canon of the Mass within the Use of York, at various times and before the custom was fixed by the printed edition, as there is between the three great Uses of Sarum, York, and Hereford, as drawn out from the printed editions of the Missal by Mr. Maskell in the "Antient Liturgies of the Church of England."

The Rev. S. Greatheed, of South Corringham, has very kindly taken charge of the Plain Chant in this volume. His name will be a sufficient voucher for the manner in which this part of the work has been done.

The following is a list of the extant copies, manuscript and printed, of Missals of the York Use:

This volume, belonging to the Rev. John Gott, Vicar of Leeds, consists of three parts:

First (foll. 1-52), Part of a Missal of the 12th Century, containing the Calendar, and followed by the Collects, Secrets, and Postcommunions for the Temporale for the year. It contains also the Canon of the Mass, with an additional clause, which will be found in the note, p. 184. One or two leaves are missing in this part. The differences between the Calendar in this and in the later MSS. will be found at p. xvii.

Secondly (foll. 53-154), a fragment of a Missal, also of the 12th Century, but not of the Use of York, which has been corrected by a later hand, and adapted, though imperfectly, to the York Use. This supplies the remaining portions of the Missæ in the Temporale commencing with First Sunday in Advent and ending with the Twentysecond Sunday after Trinity. (Foll. 136-142, containing from the Vigil of the Ascension to First Sunday after Trinity, are an insertion in a late hand.)

This Fragment differs from the three printed Uses. I subjoin the Litanies for Easter Eve :—

His ita peractis septiformis litania in choro cantetur.

Kyrie eleyson.

Christe eleyson.

Pater de cælis Deus, miserere nobis.
Fili, Redemptor mundi Deus, miserere.

Spiritus Sancte Deus, miserere.

Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, miserere.

Sancta Maria, ora.

*These two appear to be parts of the same volume.

Sancte Michael, ora.
Sancte Petre, ora.
Sancte Paule, ora.

Sancte Andrea, ora.
Sancte Johannes, ora

Sancte Jacobe, ora.
Sancte Philippe, ora.

Sancte Bartholomæe, ora.

Sancte Stephane, ora.

Sancte Clemens, ora.

Sancte Silvester, ora.

Sancte Juliane, ora.

Sancte Augustine, ora.

Sancta Maria Magdalena, ora.

Sancta Felicitas, ora.

Sancta Perpetua, ora.

Sancta Petronilla, ora.

Sancta Agatha, ora.

Sancta Agnes, ora.

Sancta Cæcilia, ora.

Omnes Sancti, orate pro nobis.

Ista in Choro incipienda est, et sic ire ad fontes.
Christe eleyson.

Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, miserere nobis.
Sancta Dei genetrix, ora.

Sancte Gabriel, ora.

Omnes sancti Angeli et Archangeli, orate.

Omnes sancti beatorum Spirituum ordines, orate.