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IN NATALE [PLURIMORUM] CONFESSORUM.
[ Oratio. ]
[S]anctorum [illorum confessorjum nos domine quesumus foueat
pretiosa confes[sio et pia iugiter] intercessio(ne) tueatur. per.
foueat] corr. from foueant, n erased
Tc 3373 MS Tul (from Tours) In festiuitate confessorum;
Rituale Eccl. Dunelmen. 91 In ecclesia cuiuslibet sancti martiris siue confessoris; the
Winchcombe sacramentary, cit. W 3, 1625; MS CCCC 422, the Red Book of Darley,
pp. 545-6 In uigilia plurimorum sanctorum ad uesperas.
Adapted from the collect of SS. Prothus et Iacincthus = GeS 1170; Ha 684: Beati P.
nos domine et I. foueat, etc.
Our fragment obviously comes from a fused Gregorian missal, with a
supplement differing from that of Sp; this supplement was formerly
attributed to Alcuin, but, as shown by J. Deshusses, is likely to be the
work of St. Benedict of Aniane.4
Provided our reconstruction of mass 1 is correct, the fragment of the
Sanctorale contains one ‘local’ mass, that of St. Anianus of Orléans.
His feast, 17 November, is entered in nearly all the eleventh-century
English calendars (HBS 72), and his mass is in the Missal of Robert of
Jumiéges. Exeter Cathedral possessed a relic de corpore sancti Aniani
(LeofM 5), and in the post-Conquest service books of Exeter, Sårum,
Hereford, and York he is celebrated with an office of three lessons or a
memoria.
Another possibility should perhaps be considered. The anniversary
of the consecration of Augustinus Anglorum is entered in four English
calendars of the tenth and eleventh centuries on November 16 (HBS
72, pp. 12, 54, 68, 82). The annotator of the Missal of St. Augustine’s
Abbey, Canterbury, added his proper mass after that of Bricius, 13
November; this mass has, however, no preface, and the postcom-
munion is ‘Sacramenta tua domine nostra extergant piacula... huius
uite pericula’.5
4 J. Deshusses, Le ‘Supplément’ au Sacramentaire Grégorien: Alcuin ou Saint
Benoit d’Aniane: Archiv fur Liturgiewissenschaft, 9/1 (Regensburg 1965), pp. 48-71.
5 The Missal of St. Augustine’s Abbey Canterbury. Ed. M. Rule (Cambridge 1896),
p. 121.