Note 5 — THE THIRD PAPYRUS

The tonsure is, of course, not pentagonal but circular. The bishop who confers it does, however, ceremonially dip the clerk’s hair in five places, e.g. front, back, right, left, and crown, while teaching the tonsured to twitter: “Dominus pars—haereditatis meae—et calicis meis—Tu es Qui restitues—haereditatem meam mihi.” Hence, perhaps, the epithet “five-pointed.” A.H.