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304 YORK.
and the name of Paulinus, Archbishop of York, is
recorded on vi. Id. St. Wilfrid follows on iv. Id.
Some of the saints are briefly described, e.g. Paulus
as primus heremita, confessor, non poiitifex;
Babillaas
Episcopus ; Everildis as virgo, non viarlyr; Pelagia as
viatroia ; Austreberta as virgo, non martyr ; and
Germanus as Bishop of Capua and confessor. The
translation of St. John of Beverley is celebrated on
viii. Kal. Nov. In December, the name of St. Barbara
appears, but the note is appended, no)i in nsu Ebor.
The calendar specifies after the name of each saint
the rank assigned to the festival and the number of
lections appropriate to it, v>hether three or nine.
The Portiforium appears to have been frequently
used by devout laymen. Bequests not unseldom
occur in mediaeval wills of the " Portous," or " Portiforium,"
which the testator had used for saying his
matins or evensong.
Richard, Lord Scrope, who died
in 1403, leaves to his son Roger the book, quo usus
fui ad dicendum matiiti7ias meas et vesperas.^
"The Pontifical of any church," says Maskell,- "is
amongst the scarcest of its books existing; and this
is no less true of those abroad than at home." This
is easily accounted for.
It was not a book belonging
to the church, but was the private property of the
bishop. Neither was it ever printed. No edition
exists except those which, from time to time, have
been published of the forms authorised by the Church
of Rome. Only two pontificals belonging to the
diocese of York are known to be in existence ; one
'
"Test. Ebor.,"' p. 278.
- " Monumenta Rituali.i,'" i., Inlrod., p. cxiv.