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Another similar rubric is as follows (correcting the typographical mistakes 

 in Dr. O'Conor's copy of it): — 



ipunDrocecDi5nuinropmi5inomaiDrcrberpnaDiuDiDichnll, 

 which he translates : — 



" Here the Dignum is to be chaunted, if the Sanctus follows the [words] 

 above." 



But these translations are quite untenable ; nor are they intelligible. Di-. 

 O'CONOR offers no explanation, but leaves it to his readers to make sense of 

 them if they can. The true meaning of the first Rubric is as follows :— 



"Here the Dignum receives the addition, li per quern follows in the text;" 

 and of the second — 



"Here the Dignum receives the addition, ii Sanctus follows in the text." 

 To explain this we have only to recollect, that after the response of the 

 people, "Dignum et justum est," the priest proceeds: — 



" Vere dignum et justum est roquum et salutare, nos tibi semper et ubique 

 gratias agere, Doniine sancte Pater, omnipotens, reterne Deus: per Christum Do- 

 minum nostrum. 



" Per quem Majestatem tuam laudant angeli, &c. 



"Cum quibus et nostras voces ut admitti jubeas deprecamur supplici con- 

 fessione dicentes, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, &c." 



But on saints' days and festivals additions were made to the ordinary form 

 of this prayer (called in these rubrics, from its first words, the Dignum) before 

 the clause beginning Per quem, and before the Sanctus. 



This fully explains the foregoing rubrics, which are intended to mark the 

 places where the priest is to introduce these proper prefaces, as the English 

 Liturgy calls them, in the Ordinary of the Mass. 



The Te igitur is entitled, in a rubric of the later handwriting, " Canon 

 dominicus pape gilasi." 



Dr. O'CoNOR, in the section of liis account of this MS. entitled "Remarkable 

 Differences in the Canon of both Missals" (i. e. of the old Irish and of the pre- 

 sent Roman Missal), quotes a passage from the Canon of the Irish Missal, which, 

 he says, shows that it was compiled before the total abolition of idolatry in 

 Ireland. In transcribing this passage he has omitted the word sed, but other- 

 wise he gives it correctly: it is as follows: — 



