Lanterna Rally

Author: John Henry Blunt

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9781331149934

Excerpt from Myroure of Oure Ladye: Containing a Devotional Treatise on Divine Service, With a Translation of the Offices Used by the Sisters of the Brigittine Monastery of Sion, at Isleworth, During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries The very rare work which is made accessible to all readers in the following pages was written for the Sisters of Sion, a religious community which existed at Isleworth on the banks of the Thames from the year 1415 until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, which was revived in its old quarters during the short reign of Queen Mary, and which still exists as a distinctively English community of ladies at Lisbon. The "Mirror of our Lady" consists of a "Rationale" of Divine Service in general, with a translation and explanation of the "Hours" and "Masses" of our Lady, as they were used at Sion. No complete MS. of it is known to the Editor, but one of the fifteenth century exists which contains about one half of it, and there remain a few printed copies, all more or less imperfect, of an edition which issued from the press of Richard Fawkes in the year 1530. The MS. Aberdeen Univ. MS., W. P. R. 4. 18] was "brought from the Cape of Good Hope and presented to the University" of Aberdeen "by Mr William Robertson, A.M., April, 1828," as is testified by an inscription to that effect on the first leaf: and it has been courteously placed in the hands of the Early English d104 Society for use in the preparation of the present volume. It is a small quarto on paper 8 x 6 inches], containing 270 pages of writing 6 x 4 inches], in a hand which belongs to some time between A.D. 1460 and A.D. 1500; nearer, probably, to the former than to the latter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.