The Cambridge Handbooks of Liturgical Study
General Editors:
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Kalendar of Peterborough Psalter (March)
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MS. 12). Cent. xiii.
THE CHURCH YEAR AND
KALENDAR
BY
JOHN DOWDEN, D.D.,
Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh), late Bishop of Edinburgh
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1910
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The purpose of The Cambridge Handbooks ofLiturgical Study is to offer to students whoare entering upon the study of Liturgies such helpas may enable them to proceed with advantage tothe use of the larger and more technical works uponthe subject which are already at their service.
The series will treat of the history and rationaleof the several rites and ceremonies which have founda place in Christian worship, with some account ofthe ancient liturgical books in which they arecontained. Attention will also be called to the importancewhich liturgical forms possess as expressionsof Christian conceptions and beliefs.
Each volume will provide a list or lists of thebooks in which the study of its subject may bepursued, and will contain a table of Contents andan Index.
The editors do not hold themselves responsiblefor the opinions expressed in the several volumesof the series. While offering suggestions on pointsof detail, they have left each writer to treat hissubject in his own way, regard being had to thegeneral plan and purpose of the series.
H. B. S.
J. H. S.
[The manuscript of the present volume was sent tothe press only a few weeks before the lamented death ofthe author, and therefore the work did not receive finalrevision at his hands. In its original draft the manuscriptcontained a somewhat fuller discussion of some of thetopics handled, e.g. the work of