24 - Mass Ledger Book

24

Mass Ledger Book

454 pp; 33.5 cm x 17 cm; Bound volume; manuscript

Mass stipend book for the Rochestown Friary in County Cork. The volume contains a monthly record of the stipends received and applied for masses at the Friary Church. The entries are routinely signed by the Provincial Minister during visitations. Yearly totals of foundation masses from 1910-34 (for Edward Dunne, Mrs Mahony and Ellen Morrogh) are given at pp 438-54. A note referring to the number of foundation and benefactors’ masses is given on the first page. Title on the spine reads ‘Mass Stipends / 1909 –’.

There is wear to the front and end cover ends. The binding is slightly cracked and the text block deformed. Careful manual handling is required.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition