The Anglican Missal (1921)

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The Anglican Missal (1921)

The Anglican Missal is a missal — a book containing the texts for the celebration of the Eucharist — prepared in the Anglo-Catholic tradition for use alongside, and as a supplement to, the Book of Common Prayer. The edition described here is the London edition of 1921, published by the Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 32 George Street, Hanover Square, London, with some inserted sections (notably the Holy Week music and the musical Ordinary and Canon) carrying a 1922 imprint edited by Francis Burgess. It is that 1921/1922 book, and no later edition, that this article and the pages under it describe.

The title page reads "The Anglican Missal", London, the Society of SS. Peter and Paul, MCMXXI. The copy from which the texts here are transcribed is the Trinity College, Toronto copy, digitized by the Internet Archive. The book is printed in the traditional missal layout: the Proper (the changing texts for each day) arranged by the liturgical year, the Ordinary (the unchanging texts of the Mass) and Canon placed in the middle of the book, and the Common of Saints, Votive Masses, Masses for the Dead, and a supplement of further saints' Masses following.

Place in the Anglo-Catholic tradition

A missal, as distinct from a Prayer Book, gives the priest the full texts for Mass in one volume: Introit, Collect, Epistle, Gradual (or Tract, or Alleluia), Gospel, Offertory, Secret, Communion, and Postcommunion for each day, together with the Ordinary and Canon. The Anglican Missal does this work in English, drawing its Ordinary largely on the Prayer Book order — the Our Father, the Collect for Purity, the Ten Commandments, the Gloria, the Creed — while supplying what the Prayer Book does not: a far fuller calendar of saints' days with proper Masses, votive Masses for weekdays and special intentions, Masses for the Dead, and a set of alternative Canons (see below). Its calendar is arranged by ranks — doubles, greater doubles, semidoubles, doubles of the first and second class, and the other grades familiar from the Roman kalendar tradition — which govern which Mass is said and what is commemorated alongside it.

Relation to the Prayer Book

The Missal does not replace the Prayer Book, and it must not be confused with it. The Prayer Book appoints the Daily Office and the Prayer Book Eucharist; its calendar marks some days red-letter, with proper collects, epistles, and gospels, and others black-letter, without propers, as described in Saints and Holy Days. The Missal keeps the Prayer Book's Sundays and principal feasts and fills the year with a much fuller roll of saints' days, each given a rank. Where the two books differ — for example, in feasts the Prayer Books omitted, such as the Assumption, the Immaculate Conception, All Souls, Corpus Christi, and the Sacred Heart, all of which have Masses in this Missal — the difference is the Missal's own Anglo-Catholic tradition, not an error in either book. Readers looking for the Prayer Book's own texts should use Book of Common Prayer (1928) and The Psalter (1928 BCP), not this Missal's pages. Conversely, the Missal's feasts, ranks, and propers must not be merged into Prayer Book columns or tables; the Missal is a distinct tradition, and its pages cross-link to, and never overwrite, the 1928 Prayer Book articles.

The Canon

The Missal does not print a single Canon. It prints a set of alternative Canon leaves, each to be inserted before the corresponding page of the Ordinary, under the title leaf's instruction: "This leaf to precede one of the following pages: C 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, or 43." The set comprises the Canon of the English Mass, the Canon of the Roman Mass in English, the Canon Missae in Latin, the Canon of the Scottish Mass, the Canon of the American Mass, and the Canon of the Mass according to the rite of the South African Province. (The "American" title is the book's own title for that Canon variant inside The Anglican Missal; it does not make this book the American Missal, which is a separate book.) A further Canon text in Prayer Book form, with Collects, follows the leaf set, and plainsong settings of the Ordinary and Canon are printed separately. The Canon leaves are live at Canon of the Mass (Anglican Missal), and the text Ordinary at Ordinary of the Mass (Anglican Missal); the Canons are presented there as alternatives with the title leaf's instruction, never merged into a single text.

The book's paginations

The book does not use one continuous pagination. Each separately printed part carries its own series, and references below always carry the series letter with the number. "E 262" and "H 262" are different pages.

  • Front matter: roman numerals (kalendar pp. v–xvii; Preparation
 and Prayers, visible folios xx–xxxi, with the two section title
 leaves unnumbered).
  • Proper of the Season, Part 1 (Advent–Holy Saturday): A series
 (A 1–A 271), then Holy Week in the B series (B 1–B 131 for the
 text, B i–B lviii for the Plainchant).
  • Order of the Mass and Canon leaves: C series (C 2–C 56 for the
 text leaves; the musical Ordinary and Canon carry a second C
 series in roman numerals, C j–C cij).
  • Proper of the Season, Part 2 (Easter Day–Trinity season):
 D series (D 3–D 204).
  • Proper of the Saints: E series (E 1–E 341).
  • Common of Saints: F series (F 1–F 92).
  • Votive Masses, Various Prayers, Masses for the Dead: G series
 (G 1–G 156).
  • Other Masses of the Saints (supplement): H series (H 1–H 140).
  • Alphabetical Index: unnumbered (scan PDF pp. 1595–1604).

Contents

The contents below follow the book's own order. Every section page is published; the transcription of the whole book, scan PDF pp. 21–1604, is complete. 

 * Advent (A 1–A 28; scan PDF pp. 35–62).
 * Christmas season, Vigil of the Nativity through the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany (A 29–A 95; scan PDF pp. 63–129; plates at PDF 66 and PDF 104). The Epiphany season is complete here, in place; nothing Epiphany is deferred to Part 2.
 * Pre-Lent and Lent, Septuagesima through Saturday after Passion Sunday (A 96–A 271, plus the unnumbered Entry into Jerusalem plate at PDF 306; scan PDF pp. 130–306).
 * Holy Week, text and Plainchant words (B 1–B 131 and B i–B lviii; scan PDF pp. 307–498). Plainsong staves stay in the scan images.

 * Easter Day through the Sunday after the Ascension (D 3–D 60; scan PDF pp. 663–720).
 * Vigil of Pentecost through the Trinity season, with the Sundays after Epiphany reprint appendix (D 61–D 204; scan PDF pp. 721–864). The D 204 appendix reprints the 3rd–6th Sundays after Epiphany for use under the D 200 rubric; it is not missing Epiphany material.

 * November–January (E 1–E 52; scan PDF pp. 865–916).
 * February–April (E 53–E 135; scan PDF pp. 917–999). The Lesson from Hebrews 5 standing in book order between the Alphege Collect (E 119) and the Anselm heading (E 120), with no feast heading of its own, is transcribed in that order, unassigned to either feast.
 * May–July (E 136–E 234; scan PDF pp. 1000–1098). This section opens with the April tail carried on E 136 (the Patronage of St. Joseph Gradual and votive notes), so the Patronage Mass is complete across the February–April and May–July pages.
 * August–November (E 235–E 341, plus the closing plate at PDF 1206; scan PDF pp. 1099–1206).

The book's own index

The book's Alphabetical Index (scan PDF pp. 1595–1604) is a finding aid, not a text to be read straight through. It opens with Feasts of Our Lord (23 entries) and Feasts of Our Lady (19), then Feasts of the Saints in alphabetical order, A–Z (383 entries), then Common of Saints (18), Votive Masses (33, including Various Prayers), Masses for the Dead (6), and a closing Blessing entry (Of Holy Water, G 151) — 483 entries in total, each giving the printed page with its series letter, as printed. Several short entries share one printed page (for example E 262 holds both Aug. 20 St. Bernard and the Aug. 22 Octave of the Assumption); those shared numbers are reproduced as printed. Spellings are as printed, including "Renigius" for Oct. 1. The full entry list, transcribed from the scan images, is published as Alphabetical Index (Anglican Missal). Every entry was legible on the rendered scan images.

How the texts are presented

Every transcribed page carries a source line naming The Anglican Missal (London: Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1921; 1922 inserts edited by Francis Burgess where applicable), the Internet Archive scan of the Trinity College, Toronto copy, and the printed page range it covers. The book's wording is preserved; OCR errors are corrected against the scan image, never from the text layer alone. Rubrics (directions) are set in italics, apart from the spoken text, so a reader can tell at a glance what is said aloud and what is direction. Latin is kept where the book gives it, with the book's own English alongside. Drop capitals are normalised to ordinary capitals, and the printed response mark "Ry." is transcribed "℟." throughout, as in the live Ordinary. Plainsong notation is not transcribed: the words underlaid to it are given, and the notation itself remains in the scan images. Anything illegible in the scan is left as printed or noted, and is never guessed into the text.

Rank and state letters: the book's own key to the kalendar abbreviations (d., gd., sd., d. 1., d. 2., and B., M., C., V., Ap., Ab., P., K., D., E.) was NOT found in this copy, although the front matter, kalendar pages, and text were searched for it. Rank and state-letter expansions, where any are asserted, follow ordinary Roman missal kalendar usage. Abbreviations printed in the book are otherwise transcribed exactly as printed, unexpanded. The expansions are not presented as the book's own key, which was not found in this copy.

Source pages

Thumbnails exist for every transcribed page: 1,574 JPEG renders at 150 dpi covering scan PDF pp. 21–1594 (every text page, plate, title leaf, and boundary page in the transcribed ranges, with no page covered twice and none unassigned), plus 10 renders of the index pages (PDF 1595–1604) — 1,584 thumbnails in total. They appear in a gallery on their section page.

Copyright and date note

Published 1921 (inserts 1922), this edition is in the public domain in the United States (published before 1930), so full-text transcription is clear for this edition. The book's own "All rights reserved" notice is a 1921 notice and does not change that. Nothing from any post-1922 revision or modern edition is included here; any later edition supplied in future would require its own copyright check before transcription. The kalendar's December pages acknowledge permission from the Proprietors of the "English Hymnal" for certain Propers and Hymns as printed in 1921; those versions share the book's 1921 publication date and are dated as such.

See also

 kalendar section

Source for this article: The Anglican Missal (London: Society of SS. Peter and Paul, 1921; 1922 inserts ed. Francis Burgess), Internet Archive digitization of the Trinity College, Toronto copy; every section transcribed from scan images.

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