Despite the title, the volume is in fact largely concerned with various
forms of the Ordo Missae, or Ordinary of the Mass, including the vesting
prayers and rubrical framework. Eleven items are edited: I. Ordinary
from a MS Sarum Missal c. 1320 (the Morris or Tiptoft Missal), now
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, JamesPM n. 8. II. B. Langforde,
'Meditacyons for goostly exercyse. In the tyme of the masse', 15th-16th
centuries. III. Alphabetum Sacerdotum, printed by Jean Petit for Guy
Marchant, Paris, 10 September 1499 . IV. Ordinary from Coutances Missal
of 1557, Missale cunctis sacerdotibus iuxta Constancien diocesis
institutum, [. .] Robert Valentin, Rouen, 1557 ( V. A Dominican
Ordinary from London, British Library, Additional MS 23935, ff. 480-484
(c. 1260-1275). VI. A Carthusian Ordinary (late 15th, early 16th
century) from London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A.III, ff.
130-160. VII. 'Preparatio Sacerdotis', from an octavo edition of the
Roman Missal published by Nicolaus de Frankfordia at Venice in 1493
VIII. Johannes Burchardus, [Ordo Missae], from edition published in
1502 at Rome by Johann Besicken. IX. 'Indutus Planeta', from the octavo
edition of the Roman Missal published by Frangois Fradin at Lyons in
1507. X. Ludovicus Ciconiolanus, Directorium Divinorum Officiorum,
Antonio Blado, Rome, 1539 . XI. Ordinary from a MS Sarum Missal of 13th
century, now Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS Lat. 24,
ff. 147-155v.
