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Excerpt from Ordo Romanus Primus The following Introduction to the earliest Ordo Romanus makes no claim to originality, having no pretensions to be anything more than a compilation from the works of the numerous liturgical writers who have expounded either the whole or parts of this venerable monument of the ceremonial of the early medieval Church in Rome. The objective which the general Editor has kept before me is the intelligent Churchman who is interested in the rites and ceremonies of the Catholic Church, but has little leisure or opportunity of examining the numerous works that deal with the whole or parts of the matters that belong to the ceremonial of solemn mass. With Lindewode I may say, present opus non precipue nee principaliter viris scribo scientia preditis, sed potius simpliciter Utteratis et pauca intelligentibus: but I fear that I cannot go on to claim for this Introduction even the modest estimate at which Lindewode appraises his Provincial as a book for students, for it is unlikely that such as they will find any thing therein of which they are not already fully aware. 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.