8 - Mass Register Book

8

Mass Register Book

154 pp; 32.5 cm x 20.5 cm; Bound volume; manuscript

Mass register book for the community in the Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork. The volume provides a daily record of house masses (with the names of the celebrants). The entries are signed by the Guardian and occasionally by the Provincial Minister during visitations. Monthly totals of masses celebrated are also given. The title page reads ‘Rochestown Monastery / Mass Book / masses applied from Dec. 10th 1895 / Father Peter [Bowe], Guardian’.

Several of the opening pages have been torn from the volume which has weakened the spine binding. Careful manual handling is required.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition