Hi again Hobbledehoy,
I was wondering if you could tell me if the following missals is the one you have. It is on ebay and the seller cannot tell if it contains vespers or not. What does your cover look like? Does it look anything like this?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221038237905?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
how about this one on abebooks:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=6337874971&searchurl=bsi%3D30%26tn%3Dandrew%2Bmissal
Sorry to bother you about this again, I am just really desperate for one.
Thanks.
Hello!
Not a bother at all: let's see here...
Neither of those seem to be the edition for which you are searching.
The first link is the popular version of the St. Andrew Missal that does not have all the texts in Latin-English, neither does it have Vespers. Now you know one hint: if it has a cover like that one, it is not the St. Andrew Missal from whence the scans are procured and presented here on CathInfo (and
only on CathInfo).
The second link describes a tome that has too few pages for it to be the desired edition, for mine has about 1,800 pages, not counting the Supplement (for Great Britain) which brings up the page tally to 1,962. There is an euchological appendix (109 pages) containing the texts for the Sacraments, Benediction, Litanies, and other devotions and prayers, and a Kyriale (162 pages).
There are similar edition which have different Supplements (for the USA, Canada, various Religious Orders, &c.). The American and Canadian supplements I have are from a later and quite different edition of the St. Andrew Missal (1959), which has all that the edition containing the British supplement has except for: the Cramer woodcuts (replaced by other illustrations, which are aesthetically inferior to the beautiful woodcuts, but that is merely my opinion), the explanations (replaced by abbreviated ones that do not touch upon the Breviary Lessons but have a nice little Scriptural topical concordance which is quite excellent), and the English translation of the Collects and the Ordinary of the Mass (the "You-Your" English (which doesn't bother me at all, because the Latin text is there).
One benefit of these later editions of the St. Andrew Daily Missal with Vespers shall be seen this coming Sunday, when the twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost takes on the Collects and lessons from the Mass of the fifth Sunday after Epiphany. Much less page maneuvering, as shall be seen later this week.
Remember:
only on CathInfo can you find the pages of the St. Andrew Missal and of various other rare tomes and commentaries that are out of print and rare nowadays. Why go anywhere else for your liturgical needs?
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