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  The cambric mask

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  Pontifical : [manuscript]

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  ff. 1-214v. [Pontifical]. Latin. ff. 1-3, Table of contents up to f. 193v, with reference to folio numbers; ff. 3-193, Pontifical; f. 193r-v, On the robing of the bishop; ff. 193v-214, Benedictions for the temporale, the sanctorale, the common of saints, the dedication of a church, the anniversary of the dedication of a church, the ordination of a bishop, the coronation of a king, and various other occasions; f. 214v, blank; Back pastedown ("215" in contemporary foliation), note in Spanish added in a cursive hand, on the laying of the corner stone, 15 May 1501, for the cloister of the cathedral under the foreman Gonbal de Hory, and the mass said on that occasion by Bishop Guillen Remon de Moncada (Tarazona, 1496-1521) in the chapel of Bishop Andrés (presumably André Martínez Férriz, Bishop of Tarazona, 1486-95).

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