On 2 December 2010 09:15, Cecilia Gaposchkin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear Megan and others, Thank you for your responses. I'm trying to track references/resonances to prayers for taking the cross that are written in the 12th and 13th century. I'm so used to dealing with individual manuscripts for individual places that the idea of a "printed source" is somewhat strange to me, but I imagine there was some sort of, if not standaradization,  representative of some sort of received textual tradition that was fairly widely in use, if in various forms.  The LaTrobe music website is extremely useful, and gives me *a* text, and I was just wondering if this was *the* text. LeTongeran traces the early roots of the (Roman) Mass set  to the seventh and eighth centuries, and these texts in some form or another appear all over the place (in the Sacramentaries, in the RGP, and so forth), but I'm looking for somethign that represents the later form.  So, the Missale Romanum - yes. But what? And I guess this is my question.  The Missale Romanum that comes up in my library search appear of all dates - and I guess my question would have been more precise if I'd asked it this way: Where to medievalists go if they want a generally reliable indication of what the Roman mass tradition (specifically) was for a particular feast. In the same time-saving way that we all go to the DouayRheims Bible to get a quick read on the Vulgate Bible, can one go to the 1964 printing of the Missale Romanum and expect some relationship to the medieval text, or, if not, is there an edition of the Medieval MIssale Romanum that is standard and I don't know about? (I know about Dijk, anyhow). 

This is a question revealing all levels of ignorance, I fear, but I hope the list will forgive me. 
At least, the Missale Romanum of 1672 is available through EEOB. Its a start.

Thanks for any more thoughts, and for all patience in getting this far.
cecilia