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Missale (1 folio) — Ely, Cambridgeshire. Benedictine abbey and (1109) cathedral priory of St Peter and St Etheldreda.


Provenance: Ely, Cambridgeshire. Benedictine abbey and (1109) cathedral priory of St Peter and St Etheldreda.
Location: College , Ushaw
Shelfmark: XVIII B.2.13
Author/Title: Missale (1 folio)
Type of evidence: l: Liturgical evidence, often to be found in the kalendar
Notes on evidence:

J.B.L. Tolhurst comments in a letter to N.R. Ker 13 July 1943 "The mention of pontifex in a rubric in col. 2 and the Ely saints in the litany point unmistakably to that Cathedral Priory". The other leaf now in XVIII.B.2.13, from the same source appears to be from a different service book. 

Date: s. xii in.
Notes:

A leaf fomerly in the binding of Ushaw College, XVIII.C.3.10, Sermones Socci de Sanctis, Strasbourg, A.D. 1484, now bound separately. Transcribed with facs. of one side by E. Stephens, "An ancient missal fragment", Ushaw Magazine for July 1933, pp. 89, 199.