26 The Rev. J. H. Todd on an Ancient Irish Missal. 



tetur."* So that this Creed may very well be found in a liturgy of even much 

 earlier date. 



In the Antiphonary of Bangor, published by MuEATOKif from a MS. in the 

 Milan Library, which is undoubtedly Irish, there occurs a Creed very similar 

 to that found in the Gallican Sacramentaries, and which, as it is founded on 

 the Baptismal Creed, was probably used in the same way for the instruction of 

 catechumens, not recited or chaunted in the Mass. 



It remains to observe, that I cannot subscribe to Dr. O'Conob's opinion that 

 the Sacramentarium of Bobio, published byMABiLLON, was an Irish MS. The 

 specimen of its characters which Mabillon has given, J and which Dr. O'Conoe 

 has very incorrectly copied (Epist. Nunc, p. cxxx., Plate I., No. 1), is enough to 

 convince every one competent to give an opinion, notwithstanding Dr. 

 O'Conor's assertion to the contrary, that the writing does not belong to the 

 Scotic or Irish school ; and the entire absence of any allusion to the name of 

 an Irish saint ought at once to decide the question. Compare it in this respect 

 with the Stowe Missal and the Antiphonary of Bangor, both of which exhibit, 

 beyond the possibility of doubt, their Irish origin. It contains a " Missa S. 

 Sigismundi regis," i. e. St. Sigismund, King of the Burgundians (ob. 515), which 

 could scarcely be found in an Irish Missal, but most clearly indicates a Gallican 

 ritual ; nor does any allusion occur in it to Bobio, Columbaniis, or anything 

 that could even indirectly connect it with Ireland,§ except that in the " Judi- 

 cius penitentialis," with which the volume concludes, the 28th canon seems 

 to have been taken from the Mensura pixnitentiarum of the Irish St. Cummian. 

 But as this work was well known on the Continent of Europe, such a coin- 

 cidence is a slender foundation for the conclusion that the whole Missal is Irish. 

 The two passages are as follows; — 



• HarJouin, Concil., torn, iii., p. 479- This must mean, not that the custom of reciting the 

 Creed was adopted from the Eastern Churches, as Mabillon strangely understands it (Comment. 

 in Ord. Rom. in Mm. Ital, ii., p. xlii.), but that the Creed to be so recited was the form adopted 

 by the Eastern Churches at the Council of Constantinople of 150 Bishops; in other words, the 

 Constantinopolitan Creed. 



t Opere {Arezzo, 1770), torn, .xi., part iii., pp. 217-2.51. 



+ Museum Ital., vol. i., part ii.. p. 276. § See M.^billo.n's remarks, loc. cit., p. 276. 



