24 The Rev. J. H. Todd on an Amient Irish Missal. 



MS., nor in the Stowe Missal (both Irish) is the celebrated addition ^/io^ue to 

 be found in the Creed."* 



And again: — 



"We shall only briefly remark that, in the Irish [Missal], the descent of 

 our Saviour into hell is not in the Creed ; neither is it in the Irish Missal dis- 

 covered by Muratori at Bobio, though it is expressly mentioned in the Nicene 

 and Constantinopolitan." 



This last statement is a singular tissue of blunders, arising apparently from 

 carelessness, for Dr. O'Conor could not have been ignorant that the article of 

 the descent into hell does not occur in the Nicene or Constantinopolitan Creed. f 

 But this is not his only error, for this clause does occur in the Creed of the Bobio 

 Missal, as quoted by himself in another work. J In fact, the very reverse of the 

 foregoing statement is true; the descent into hell is in the Bobio Missal, although 

 it is not expressly mentioned in the Nicene and Constantinopolitan Creeds; and, 

 therefore, does not occur in the Stowe Missal for tliat very reason, because the 

 Creed there given is, in substance, the Nicene Creed, whereas that of the Bobio 

 MS. is founded rather upon the Apostles' Creed. 



A more important fact, which Dr. O'Conor has omitted to notice, is, that 

 in the Stowe Missal the Creed is recited as a part of the Mass, whereas in the 

 Bobio MS. it does not so occur, as Mabillon has remarked: — "Nulla hie" (he 

 says) "mentio de Symbolo C. P. occurrit, quod fortasse tum in Missa Gallicana 

 haud recitaretur."|| The Creed, wliich is of course the Baptismal Creed, occurs 

 in a special service (used on Palm Sunday in the Gallican Church), which 

 in the Bobio Sacramentary is called vlcZ aurium apertionem** and in the "Missale 

 Gallicanum Vetus," published by M^iBiLLON in another work,ff " Expositio vel 

 traditio SymhoU" 



* Append. No. I. p. 45. 



t Another evidence of the carelessness with which the above paragraph was written is, that Dr. 

 O'Conor attributes the discovery of the Bobio MS. to Mubatoei, instead of to Mabillon. 



\ Rer. Hib. Scriptt., torn, i., Epist. Nunc, p. cxxxvii. 



I Mus. Ital., ubi supra, p. 282. ** Ibid. p. 310 seq. 



tt "De Liturgia Gallicana," lib. iii. p. 339. Isidorus Hispalensis tells us that this ceremony 

 took place on Palm Sunday: — "Hoc die (he says) Symbolum competentibus traditum propter 

 confinem Dominicse Pascha soUemnitatem: ut quia jam ad Dei gratiam percipiendam festinant, 

 fidem quam confiteantux agnoscant." — De Off. Ecdes., cap. xxvii. And the custom is enjoined by 



