The myroure of Oure Ladye, containing a devotional treatise on divine service, with a translation of the offices used by the sisters of the Brigittine monastery of Sion, at Isleworth, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Edited from the original black-letter text of 1530 A.D., by John Henry Blunt.

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The myroure of Oure Ladye, containing a devotional treatise on divine service, with a translation of the offices used by the sisters of the Brigittine monastery of Sion, at Isleworth, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Edited from the original black-letter text of 1530 A.D., by John Henry Blunt.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1873.
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Bridget, -- of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373.
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Brigittine.
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Syon abbey.
Bridgettines.
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"The myroure of Oure Ladye, containing a devotional treatise on divine service, with a translation of the offices used by the sisters of the Brigittine monastery of Sion, at Isleworth, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Edited from the original black-letter text of 1530 A.D., by John Henry Blunt." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00040. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2025.

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And begynneth the Chapytres of the fyrste parte of thys presente boke.

How and why Goddes seruyce ys sayde eche day [Contents of the first part of the Mirror.] in .vii. howres. Capitulo primo. [page 11]
¶ Why yt ys sayde in these .vii. howres, rather then in other. Capitulo secundo. [page 12]
¶ Why oure Lady ought to be praysed and serued in these same howres. Capitulo .iii. [page 14]
¶ How your seruyce and youre Legende, and your rewle were all gyuen of one spyryte, and how holy a man he was that by heuenly inspiracion set your songe and youre seruyce. Capitulo .iiii. [page 16]
¶ How the holy goste wrought bothe by the aungel & by mayster Peter, but diuersely in eyther of theym. And what rewarde the same mayster shold haue for writynge of youre songe. Capitulo .v. [page 17]
¶ How an Aungell was sent of god to seynte Byrgytte to endyte youre Legende in her owne tongue, whiche mayster Peter drew fyrste in to latyn. Ca. .vi. [page 18]
¶ That this holy seruice ought to be sayde with more dylygence & deuocyon then other prayers. Ca. .vii. [page 21]
¶ That the seruice of these howres oughte to be said in dew tyme, and why youre seruyce ys sayde after the brothers seruyce. Capitulo .viii. [page 24]
¶ That these holy howres ought to be sayde in dew place, that is the chyrche. Capitulo .ix. [page 27]
¶ How perlous yt ys to be absente from chyrche, in tyme of these holy howres without very nede. Ca. x. [page 28]
¶ That ye shulde neyther be to slowe to chirche warde ne hasty to go thens. Capitulo .xi. [page 30]
¶ What profyt is in the songe of diuyne seruyce, more then in the saynge without note. Ca. .xii. [page 32]
¶ Who ordeyned fyrste the praysynge of God to

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be songe in quiers, and why psalmes ar oftener songe [Contents of the first part of the Mirror.] in holy chyrche, then other partes of holy scrypture. [Ca. xiii. [page 35]
¶ That the howres of thys holy seruyce ought to be songe and sayde in clennes of conscience. Ca. xiiii. [page 38]
¶ That the harte owght to be kepte in tyme of these holy howres from dystraccyon, & from thynkeynge on other thynges. Capitulo .xv. [page 39]
¶ What causeth dystraccyon of the mynde in tyme of goddes seruyce & what remedyes are to be vsed there ageynste. Capitulo .xvi. [page 41]
¶ Of them that are vayne or troubelous in tyme of goddes seruice & let bothe themselfe & other. [Ca. xvii. [page 44]
¶ Of them that ar lyghte to speke or to slepe in tyme of goddes seruyce. Capitulo .xviii. [page 46]
¶ That all the wordes of thys holy seruyce, oughte to be sayde or songe, wyth entendaunce therto, and what paryll yt ys to leue any parte therof vnsayde. [Ca. xix. [page 49]
¶ Of hasty saynge of these holy houres, and of ouer skypynge. Capitulo .xx. [page 52]
¶ What entendaunce ought to be had aboute the song of these holy howres. Capitulo .xxi. [page 56]
¶ How the songe of these holy howres, ought to be meke and sad [leaf B .j.] wythoute all vanyte, and curyosyte. [Ca. xxii. [page 57]
¶ How ye ought to dresse youre entente in sayng or syngyng of this holy seruyce. Ca. xxiii. [page 60]
¶ Of reuerence and deuocyon that oughte to be had in thys holy seruyce both inwarde and outwarde. [Capitulo .xxiiii. [page 62]

¶ Here endyth the Chapitres,
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