30 The Eev. J. H. Todd on an Ancient Irish Missal. 



tery of Bobio, a thousand years after his death, and is now in the Ambrosian 

 Library, contain the selections for the Sundays of the year."* 



It is marvellous that such a statement could be made by any one who had 

 seen Mabillon's edition of the Bobio Missal, which contains Epistles and Gospels 

 for all the Sundays and festivals. I say nothing of the assumption that this is 

 " St. Columbanus's Missal," for which, as we have seen, there is not the smallest 

 evidence ; or of the assertion that it is now in the Ambrosian Library, which 

 was, perhaps, a slip of the memory, occasioned by confounding this MS. with 

 the Antiphonarium Benchormse, published by Muratoei. 



We must now return to Dr. O'Conor's description of this MS. 



He remarks correctly that in enumerating the orders of the hierarchy, three 

 only are mentioned in this Missal, viz., bishops, priests, and deacons, — " a proof," 

 he says, " that it was written before the order of subdeacons was added in the 

 twelfth century."! 



He tells us also that the ceremony of mixing water with the Eucharistic 

 wine is wholly omitted, as well as the prayers which now follow the Offertory 

 in the Roman Missal, the Lavabo, and the prayer, Suscipe, saneta Trinitas. 



The festivals commemorated are the following: — (1.) " Nafale Domini 

 (Christmas-Day). (2.) "-Kl." (i.e. Circumcisio Domini,— the 1st of January). 

 (3.) '■'■ Stellce" (the Epiphany). (4.) '■'■ Dies natalis calicis Domini nostri" (i.e. 

 thefirstday of Lent). (5.) '■'■ Pasca" (Easter). (6.) ^'■Clausula pascw" (Low 

 Sunday). (7.) '■'■ Ascensio' (Ascension Day); and (8.) '' Pentacoste" (sic). 

 " For these festivals," Dr. O'Conoe says, " there is but one common preface ; 

 nor is there any distinction save the inserting in that preface the name of each 

 festival as it occurs in the calendar." 



" This part of the Service (as Dr. O'Conor goes on to notice) is in this Mis- 

 sal twice interrupted by rubrics in the Irish language, written in the more 

 modern hand, but without any interval between the words, thus: — 



ipunDcorecDijniiiTicopTTiaijinDmaiDpepquembepinaDiuDiDichall, 



which Dr. O'Conor translates: — 



" Here the Dignum is to be chaunted, if the [words] per quern follow the 

 last [word] above [mentioned]." 



* Stowe Cat., App. No. I., p. 45. f Stowe Catal., vol. i., App. No. I., p. 44. 



