and use of Testamentum Domini, and the Gnostic Prayers are naturally not Catholic. The Introduction necessarily is limited to the mention of such liturgical facts as are essential to an intelligent understanding of the Prayers, and replaces a relatively full account of the different liturgies with map, chronological table, and a more or less detailed comparative table of the contents of the liturgies. This proved to be too large a work for the liturgical series, and will be published as a separate book; it is referred to here as The Ancient Liturgies." My sincere thanks are due to Dr. Feltoe for general help and various suggestions; while for valuable help in connection with the translations I am much indebted to Canon Roberts of Luddesdown Rectory, Gravesend, the Rev. J. Vicars Foote, and my brother the Rev. E. C. Linton, without whose unfailing help I could not have completed the book. 66 With reference to the use of copyright material I am very grateful to Dr. Harmer, Bishop of Rochester, for permission to quote the translation of the Didaché Prayers, Appendix A; to Dr. Maclean, Bishop of Moray and Ross, for use of the Testamentum Domini Prayers; to Canon Brightman and the Clarendon Press for allowing me to translate from the text of Liturgies Eastern and Western, and to use the translation there given (pp. 228-34) of the Ethiopic anaphora, "The Apostles." To Canon Brightman I am also indebted for generously full answers to various questions, but perhaps the debt relates to "The Ancient Liturgies rather than to this volume. My thanks are also tendered to Messrs. Cope and Fenwick for the translation of the Armenian Prayer "S. Athanasius," taken from The Armenian Liturgy by two Armenian Priests, in the admirable series "Christian Liturgies"; and, finally, to the S.P.C.K. for the use of the three East Syrian Prayers from The Liturgy of Adai and Mari (S.P.C.K., 1893), and the Prayer of Serapion from Dr. Wordsworth's well-known book, The Prayer Book of Serapion. A. L. IN the Notes of this book I have referred frequently to the following books, as being easily obtained and of great value for further study of the Liturgies. Srawley, The Early History of the Liturgy (Cam. Univ. Press, 1912), cited as E.H.L. Brightman, Liturgies, Eastern and Western (Ox. Univ. Press, 1896), cited as L.E.W. Woolley, The Liturgy of the Primitive Church (Cam. Univ. Tyrer, The Epiclesis (Longmans, 1917). Duchesne, Christian Worship (S.P.C.K., 1919). I have cited Neale's Introduction to the History of the Holy' Eastern Church, 2 vols. (London, 1850) as Neale, Intro. H.E.C.; Dict. d'Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie (Cabrol, etc., Paris, in progress) as D.A.C.L. Other books are referred to in full. |