The Blessing of the Waters on the

Eve of the Epiphany

on the

Eve of the Epiphany

THE GREEK, LATIN, SYRIAC, COPTIC, AND RUSSIAN
VERSIONS, EDITED OR TRANSLATED
FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXTS

THE LATIN BY

JOHN, MARQUESS OF BUTE, K.T.

THE REST FOR HIM, AND WITH

HIS HELP IN PART, BY

E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, M.A., LITT.D., D.LIT.

LONDON

HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AMEN CORNER, E.C.
NEW YORK: 91 & 93 FIFTH AVENUE

1901

OXFORD HORACE HART, M.A.

PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

BODLEIAT

#2 9 1901

LIBRARY

Contents

I. THE LATIN VERSION

The Latin text has been edited from 'Rituale | Romanum |

'Pauli Quinti | Pontificis Maximi | jussu editum | inde vero |

'A Benedicto xiv. P. M. | auctum, et castigatum. In quo,

'quae Parochis ad administrationem | Sacramentorum, Bene-

dictiones, et Conjurationes necessaria censentur, | accu-

'rate sunt posita. | Romae | ex typographia de Romanis |

MDCCCXVI. | Facta a praesidibus facultate.' This edition

is now rare. The Latin text of this edition has been care-

fully collated with that printed in 'Benedizione | dell' Acqua |

'nel giorno dell' Epifania | Solita farsi nella Chiesa della

'Venerabile | Archiconfraternità | delle | Sagre Stimmate |

'del Padre | S. Francesco | in Roma. | In Roma, nella

'Stamparia del Bernabò, l'anno MDCCXIII. | Con licenza

'de' superiori,' | and the variant readings have been printed

in footnotes. It has been thought well to reproduce the

music to which certain parts of the service were sung

according to the former work. On December 6, 1890,

a New Form of the Blessing of the Waters on the Eve of

the Epiphany was approved by the Congregation of Sacred

Rites; this was ordered to be printed at Ratisbon on

September 17, 1892, and the edition duly appeared at

Ratisbon in 1893. The Latin text of the editions in the

New Form will be found on pp. 43-46 of the present

work.

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