The Cambridge Handbooks of Liturgical Study GENERAL EDITORS: H. B. SWEET, D.D. J. H. SRAWLEY, D.D. THE CHURCH YEAR AND KALENDAR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS London: FETTER LANE, E.C. C. F. CLAY, MANAGER [Illustration] Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET Berlin: A. ASHER AND CO. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS New York: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. _All rights reserved_ [Illustration: Kalendar of Peterborough Psalter (March) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (MS. 12). Cent. xiii.] THE CHURCH YEAR AND KALENDAR BY JOHN DOWDEN, D.D., Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh), late Bishop of Edinburgh Cambridge: at the University Press 1910 Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS NOTE BY THE EDITORS The purpose of _The Cambridge Handbooks of Liturgical Study_ is to offer to students who are entering upon the study of Liturgies such help as may enable them to proceed with advantage to the use of the larger and more technical works upon the subject which are already at their service. The series will treat of the history and rationale of the several rites and ceremonies which have found a place in Christian worship, with some account of the ancient liturgical books in which they are contained. Attention will also be called to the importance which liturgical forms possess as expressions of Christian conceptions and beliefs. Each volume will provide a list or lists of the books in which the study of its subject may be pursued, and will contain a table of Contents and an Index. The editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed in the several volumes of the series. While offering suggestions on points of detail, they have left each writer to treat his subject in his own way, regard being had to the general plan and purpose of the series. H. B. S. J. H. S.