* Expunctory dots have cancelled 'commemoratione' on lines 5, 6; and 'solennitate,' in ink, stands over the second portion of the word.

A line obliquely crossed at the middle and cut by a short horizontal stroke so soon as it clears the text of the Mass of St Damasus, has been traced in the outer margin of 137; but another line, irregularly formed, has been drawn along its length.

E

DE SANCTA LUCIA'.

ORATIO.

XAUDI NOS DEUS salutaris nos

ter. ut sicut de beatae LUCIAE

PRAEPHATIO.

VERE AETERNE. qui aecclesiam tuam in apostolicis tribuisti consistere fundamentis. De quorum

festiuitate gaudemus. ita piae de- collegio beati THOMAE solennia

uotionis erudiamur affectu per.

SECRETA.

Accepta tibi sit domine sacratae

plebis oblatio. pro sanctae LUCIAE honore. cuius se meritis percepisse de tribulatione cognoscat auxilium : per.

POSTCOMMUNIO.

Satiasti domine familiam tuam

muneribus sacris. eius quaesumus semper interuentione nos refoue. cuius solennia celebramus : per.

SANCTI THOMAE APOS-
TOLI.

ORATIO.

A NOBIS QUAESUMUS DOMINE

solennitatibus gloriari. ut eius semper et patrociniis sulleuemur. et fidem congrua deuotione sectemur. per.

SECRETA.

Debitum domine nostrae serui

tutis reddimus suppliciter exorantes. ut suffragiis beati apostoli

tui THOMAE in nobis tua munera tuearis. cuius honorando confessionem laudis tibi hostias immolamus: per.

| fol. 137 v.

1 Pencilled '.N.' in outer margin.

A pencilled 'n' confronts the opening of the Preface. Over it, and in the margin adjoining the earlier constituents of the Mass, are the following::-'officium michi autem 'epistola. iam non estis Grad Nimis honorati sunt' and 'per manus autem apostolorum.'

Subsequently to the insertion of this memorandum, as it would appear, and close to the first letter of officium' a large ‘.O.' has been inscribed.

3 The beginning of this Mass is marked by a somewhat highly elaborated compendium for 'Deus.'

2 The lower margin of 138 v. has the following: :-'Officium. Ego autem sicut oliua. In aeternum et in seculum,' a distinctly later hand, of late twelfth century, adding inside the lateral ruling, Quere in fine libri.'

3 A strip of vellum, less than half an inch in width, has been cut away from the outer side of this leaf to within rather more than an inch of the bottom. At the untouched portion of the leaf three small punctures have been cut with the point of a knife, as it would seem, and a twisted strip of vellum remains twined through two of them. Thus the celebrant was helped to find the Commune Sanctorum.

1 This word, by the same hand as the context, is in the outer margin, and contiguous to 'colligis.'

2 There is a marginal cross opposite the opening of the Preface, and from it a line sloping to the last line of the constituent. Here, and still in the outer margin, is the note 'cc pf' (communis praefatio), and under it, in two lines, 'Qui ecclesiam tuam totum scribe.' Close to the cc pf' is a small manual cross almost covering the 'cc.' The writing is that common to notes on 78 v., 89 v., and 154 v. See, for Preface, 137 v.

3 A small manual cross is pencilled in the adjacent margin.

4 The MS. accentuates the first letter of ' eadem.'

Carelessly set manual cross in outer margin.

1 In the outer margin of 140v. (13) is a mark which may be a long 's' with a horizontal stroke across it. Can it be meant for 'stet'?

2 Carelessly set manual cross in outer margin of line 1. The rubric of the Preface is at the further end of the line.

3 Blank erasure after '.N.'. The cancelled word was, I think, 'ut.'

This title is in the outer margin marked as that on 140 v. (13).

♪ Accent in MS. on first syllable of ' eadem.'

By the initial there stands a small carefully pencilled manual cross. Across it is a small slanting stroke which may have been intentionally made.

M. R.

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