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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.1918 Excerpt:... ON THE EARLY TEXTS OF THE ROMAN CANON1 It is proposed in this paper to examine the various readings of the early texts of the Roman Canon as contained in the mass books from the seventh to the ninth century, with a view to ascertain how they may fall into classes or families; and to indicate briefly some of the questions which the results of the comparison raise. The Canon is unfortunately wanting in the Leonianum. The texts to be considered are those in the following books: 1. The Bobbio Missal, Paris B. N. lat. 13246, Delisle Mimoire No. vi (cited as Bo). 2. The Stowe Missal, now in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy (St? 3. The Missale Francorum, MS Vat. Regin. 257, Delisle No. iv (Fr). 4. The Gelasianum, MS Vat. Regin. 316, Delisle No. ii (GV). 5. Rheinau MS 30 at Zurich, Wilson's R, Delisle No. ix (R). 6. St Gall MS 348, Wilson's S, Delisle No. x (S). 7. The Angouleme Sacramentary, Paris B. N. lat. 816, Delisle No. xv (Ang). 8. The Gellone Sacramentary, Paris B. N. lat. 12048, Delisle No. vii (Gelt). 9. Paris B. N. lat. 2296, a MS which, though of late date and widely departing from its congeners, must be classed with the MSS of the eighth-century revision of Gelas; Delisle No. xliv (2296). 10. Cambrai MS 164, see supra, pp. 63,64 (Co). 11. MS Vat. Regin. 337 (Reg). 12. MS Vat. Ottobon. 313, Delisle No. xxxv (Ott). 13. To these must now be added the Monte Cassino palimpsest. This is Cod. Casin. 271, al. 348. It is hereafter designated Cass. As this manuscript is either unknown or ignored, and as it is of the very first importance for all questions connected with the Gregorianum, I deal with it in detail at once here. Mention was first made of it in the year 1834 by K. Blume, the 1 From The Journal of Theological Studies, July 1903. 'Unfortunately i...