Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... the obits for princes and great men may have been celebrated in purple vestments, as we find purple vestments spoken of for solemn exequies at Exeter and Lincoln 1; but at Wells it was ordered that, whether for kings or bishops, the vestments should be black and simple.2 Lebrun records that at the obits of certain kings of the Franks, and even of a king of the Capetian dynasty, as Philip Augustus, the ornaments were violet; and that at Narbonne, also, the obits were said in violet.3 In England I find that, so late as 1760, purple was the colour of the pall and canopy used to cover the body of King George IL the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, in their copes, with wax candles in their hands, preceding the body.4 PART III. ENGLISH LITURGICAL COLOURS. It would seem to be asserted by almost all historians that at the beginning of the sixteenth century the Sarum Use had displaced all the other old English books in the dioceses of the southern province; in fact, that the Sarum Missal played in England in the middle ages the same part that the Roman Missal played so successfully in Germany in the seventeenth century, and in France in our own time. The changes, however, involved by the adoption of the Sarum books in England were probably but small. A careful distinction must be made between the words of the Sarum Missal, what was said or sung, and the ceremonies of the Sarum Missal which accompanied the saying or singing. The words of the Sarum, York, Hereford, or Bangor Canon are for all practical purposes identical with the Gregorian Canon which has been in use on the Continent on either side of the Rhine, or across the Alps or Pyrenees, for the last thousand years, ever since the destruction of the old Gallican rite by Charles the Great. Before the Reformatio...
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