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| | Palmer: Origines Liturgicæ, Doc 09 |
 | | Had this learned writer said "missal," instead of "liturgy," it would [144] probably have been more correct; for we must in the present instance, as before, distinguish between these two things. |
 | | Musaeus, who died after the middle of the fifth century, is said by Gennadius to have composed for Eustasius, bishop of Marseilles, an excellent and considerable book of sacraments, with lessons, psalms, and forms of supplicating God, and attesting (contestandi) his beneficence |
 | | This word contestandi is referred by Mabillon to the ancient Gallican custom of calling the preface, which begins Vere dignum andc., by the name of contestatio, a term which we find applied to it in ancient MSS. |
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