20 The Rev. J. H. Todd on an A ncient Irish Missal. 



the abbot of the Columban Monastery of Luxovium, or Lisieux (he calls him- 

 self "ejus [Cohimbani] discipulus et successor"), admits the fact, and defends it 

 thus: — " Orationum porro multiplicationem in sacris officiis multum prodesse 

 quis neget ? Cum et orationi sine intermissione vacari nobis ex divine prse- 

 cepto incumbat, et quo plus Dominus quseritur, plus inveniatur, nihilque cuivis 

 Christiano ei maxima poenitentibus salubrius sit, quam Deum multiphcatione 

 precura et orationum assiduitate pulsare." 



Dr. O'CoNOR quotes a passage from the Rule of St. Columbanus, which 

 describes this multiplicity of prayers, in exact conformity with the Stowe Missal; 

 although, on examining the context, it would seem that the Rule was speak- 

 ing of the versicles interposed between the Psalms of the Daily Office, not of 

 the Collects in the Mass.* Be this, however, as it may, it is certain that this 

 Missal represents one of the ancient liturgical offices in use in the Irish Church, 

 by the second " Ordo" of Irish saints. 



To give an idea of these Collects, I may add to what Dr. O'CoNOR has said, 

 that one of them is entitled, '■'■ Oratio prima Petri" beginning, "Deus qui culpa ;"f 

 then follows a lesson from 1 Cor. [xi.], beginning — "Fratres quotiescunque 

 manducabitis ;" then " Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui populum tuum," &c. 



" R. Quserite Dominum, et confirmamini. Fortitude mea, et laudatio mea 

 usque in salutem. 



" Sacrificio prseseutibus Domine qusBsumus intende placatus, ut devotionis 

 nostra proficiant ad salutem. 



* The words are: — "Per diurnas terni Psalmi horas pro operum interpositione statuti sunt a 

 senioribus nostris cum versiculorum augmento intervenientium pro peccatis primum nostris, deinde 

 pro omni populo Christiano, deinde pro Sacerdotibus, et reliquis Deo consecratis sacros plebis gradibus, 

 postremo pro eleemosynas facientibus, postea pro pace regum, novissime pro inimicis, ne illis Deus 

 statuat in peccatum quod persequuntur et detrahunt nobis, quia nesciunt quid faoiunt." — Reg. S. 

 Columbani, cap. 7 (Fleming, Colkctan. Sacr., p. 6). Specimens of the Collects here alluded to may- 

 be seen in the Antiphonary of Bangor, published by Mceatoei, " Opere," tom. xi. part iii. p. 2 1 7, seq. 

 {Arezzo, 1770), and also in the "Liber Hymnorum," preserved in the Library of Trin. Coll., Dublin, 

 a MS. probably of the tenth century. 



t This prayer occurs in what is called " Missa Cotidiana Bomensis" [i. e. ex Ordine Romano 

 seu Gregoriano," as Mabillon explains it] at the end of the "Missale Gothioum" (Mabillon, Lit. 

 Gallican., p. 300); also in the "Missa Romeusis Cotidiana," in the Bobio Missal (Mus. Ital., tom. i. 



part ii. p. 279) It is as follows: — "Deus qui culpa offenderis, poanitentia placaris, afBictorum 



gemitus respice, et mala quiE juste inrogas misericorditer averte. Per." 



