Notes of liturgy added to the Mass, c.1124

Notes of liturgy added to the Mass by Popes Celestine, Telesphorus and Sixtus. Transcription and translation of Textus Roffensis f. 117r by Jacob Scott.

Date uncertain. Also see the Popes responsible for introducing new forms of service into the liturgy on folio 116v.

Transcription

117r (select folio number to open facsimile)

Officium missæ instituit Celestinus
papa. Telesforus papa constituit
ut gloria in excelsis deo diceretur. Syxtus
papa addidit, sanctus, sanctus, sanctus.

Translation

See Translation Notes

The service of Mass instituted by Pope Celestine¹.

Pope Telesphorus² set that we were to say 'Glory to God in the highest'.

Pope Sixtus I³ added 'holy, holy, holy'.

Footnotes

1 Bishop of Rome from 10 September 422 to 1 August 432.

2 The eighth bishop of Rome from c. 126 to c. 137.

3 Also spelled Xystus. The seventh bishop of Rome from c. 115 to 124/126/128.