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.

This breviary was printed by Antonius Goin at Antwerp in September 1537; the first recension appeared in 1535, but the second is the forerunner of over a hundred subsequent editions before it was suppressed in 1558 by Pope Paul IV. It influenced Cranmer's liturgical projects, for which see volume 50 in the present series.

This breviary was printed by Antonius Goin at Antwerp in September 1537; the first recension appeared in 1535, but the second is the forerunner of over a hundred subsequent editions before it was suppressed in 1558 by Pope Paul IV. It influenced Cranmer's liturgical projects, for which see volume 50 in the present series.

This manuscript, now now Huntington Library, MS EL 34 B 7, contains a fifteenth- century Latin text interesting for its admixture of English rubrics, as well as prayers and hymns. Chester was in the Lichfield diocese, and thus in the Province of Canterbury, so it is no surprise that the text is closer to Sarum than York usage.

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