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Title: The old service-books of the English Church
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Wordsworth, Christopher, 1848-1938 Littlehales, Henry, 1859-
Subjects: Church of England Liturgies, English
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Ottawa

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Rat-her less hhan /4 Full Size The last pageofthefifteenth century Gospel Book, Brit. Mus MS Harl 7026. BOOKS FOR THE MASS : GOSPEL-BOOK 201 One of the coloured plates in our own volume is afacsimile, except as regards size, of one side of leaf 4of this MS. From the text on the reverse and the twolines above the picture it is almost certain that thispage was originally the last of the book when perfect.The picture represents the finished volume being handedto the donor, Lord Lovel, by whom it was orderedto be made for the cathedral. The inscription written inthe ornament on the inner margin of the page explainsby whom the book was given and for what purpose.Lord Lovel owned and lived at Wardour Castle, not farfrom Salisbury ; he died in 1408. Our plate of grotesques supplies an interesting exampleof a grotesque ornament from the margin of one of thepages of this book. Such incongruities of ornament areby no means uncommon in the marginal decoration ofservice-books. (See pp. 299, 300,

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