The Gelasian Sacramentary : Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae; Edited with Introduction, Critical Notes and Appendix (Classic Reprint)

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An account of the method which has been followed in the reproduction and correction of the text of the Vatican ms. Will be found in the Introduction. It may be well to say here that corrections have been more sparingly made in the rubrics of the manuscript than in the text of the prayers, since it often appears that the errors of the latter are due to the mistakes of the scribe, and are absent from the text of other books of a date either earlier, or practically contemporary as belong ing to the period before the literary reforms of Charles the Great. In the case of the rubrics, on the other hand, the evidence of other manuscripts is scantier, and it is often on the whole more probable that the ungrammatical form is the earliest in which the rubric appeared.

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