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In many missals, the beginning of the Canon faces a page with an image of
the crucifix. So the book would be open.
Cyprian Rosen
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Subject: [M-R] "Canon and Crucifix of the Masse boke"-1525
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> In November 1525 two of Henry VIII's ambassadors went to Lyon to
> conclude a truce with Louise of Savoy, regent of France (her
> son, Francis I, was then in captivity in Spain). There was
> considerable ceremony. As described in Hall's Chronicle (1550):
> "...after that Masse was dooen, the Lady Regent toke the twoo
> Ambassadors, the one on the right hande, and the other on the
> left hande, and so went vp to the high aultar, and there she
> layed her hande on the Canon and Crucifix of the Masse boke, and
> there sware to obserue, fulfill, and kepe, all the articles and
> agrements, concluded in the league and treatie of peace, by her
> commissioners."
>
> If the Canon is the part of the Mass with the words of
> consecration, that implies the book is open. What then is the
> "Crucifix of the Masse boke"? I would guess that to be a
> crucifix embedded on the front binding of the book; if so, that
> would imply the book is closed.
>
> Any wiser reading of this ceremony?
>
> Thanks,
> Al Magary
>
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