A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities Volume 3 (Paperback)

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. 1880 Excerpt: ...custom of making the oblations to the bishop himself at the Eucharist, and receiving them back from him when consecrated. 4. The older MSS. of the sacramentaries contain prayers which might have been combined with any of the rituals hitherto mentioned. (a) That which is known as the Leonine Sacramentary contains prayers without rubrical directions, to be used in (1) the consecration of a bishop, (2) the benediction of a deacon, (3) the consecration of a presbyter. The Veronese MS. which contains the sacramentary is assigned to the 10th century. The authorship of the sacramentary is absolutely uncertain; various conjectures will be found (1) in the preface to the original edition of the work by Bianchini in his edition of Anastasius, vol. iv. Rome, 1735 (whose ascription of it to Leo the Great was withdrawn later in life according to Gerbert, Vet. Liturg. Alem. vol. i. p. 80); (2) in Muratori's Dissertatio de Rebus liturgicis, c. iii. prefixed to his edition of it in his L'durgia Bomam Vetus, vol. i. The text will be found not only in the above-men tioned volumes of Bianchini and Muratori, but also in the Ballerini edition of St. Leo M. vol. ii. p. 110 sqq. (reprinted in Migne, Patr. Lat. vol. lx. p. 113 sqq.). (6) The older MSS. of that which is known as the Gregorian Sacramentary also contain prayera, without a ritual, to be used at the ordination of bishops, presbyters, and deacons. The chief of these older MSS. are (1) one in the Imperial Library at Vienna (No. 1815. 5; formerly Theol. 149), which is describe' by Lambecius (DM. Caesar, t. ii. c. 5, p. 299) (who supposed, but wrongly, that it was the copy which Hadrian I. presented to Charles the Great), and by Denis (Codd. MSS. The, l. B. P. t. i. pars iii. p. 3032); (2) a Vatican codex, which, with a co...