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Salvete omnes -
This may be a really stupid question, but I wanted to make sure one way or the
other.
Various chaplainries and anniversaries endowed in St Giles', Edinburgh, in the
late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries include instructions that extra
prayers for the dead (usually the De Profundis) should be added by the priest
during the Mass, at the 'first _lavatorium_'. The only point in the Mass that
this could reasonably refer to, as far as I can work out, is the first washing
of the sacred vessels after Communion; but I haven't yet been able to
find 'lavatorium' used with this meaning elsewhere. Such a meaning isn't given
in the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British and Irish Sources. I'd have
thought that the lavabo was a more likely place to add in extra psalms, and
sometimes additions are required at that point (referred to as the 'locio
manuum'); but the reference to the _first_ lavatorium would seem to rule that
out, as the hands are not washed twice while the vessels are. Can anyone
confirm or correct my assumption?
Many thanks - and a 'De profundis' will be said for anyone who helps!
Helen Brown
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Helen Brown (Miss)
Doctoral student
Scottish History Department,
University of Edinburgh,
17 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh
Veritas liberabit.
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