Note 976 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL
Reading edition
"Manual ad usum Sarum," in Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, Appendix, 17-20; also in Maskell, Monumenta ritualia, I, 50-77. Compare the rituals of York, Hereford, and the others contained in Surtees Society Publications, LXIII, 24 ff., 115 ff., 160 ff.; also the "Rituel de lire" in Léon Gautier, La chevalerie, 424-31, as summarized in capitals in the margin; and the ritual of Rennes in Martene, De ritibus, II, 127; or in Sohm, Eheschliessung, 159, 160: "In primis veniat sacerdos ante ostium ecclesiae indutus alba atque stola cum benedicta aqua; qua aspersa, interroget eos sapienter, utrum legaliter copulari velint, et quaerat quomodo parentes non sint, et doceat quomodo simul in lege Domini vivere debeant. Deinde faciat parentes secuti mos est dare eam, atque sponsum dotalitium dividere, cunctisque audientibus legere, ipsumque suae sponsae libenter dare.... Qua finita, intrando in ecclesiam, missam incipiat," etc.