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their_o rite_n and_o ceremony_n and_o from_o three_o manuscript_n send_v from_o goa_n the_o metropolitan_a city_n of_o the_o east_n indies_n to_o lisbon_n in_o portugal_n this_o ritual_a be_v draw_v out_o presbyter_n quando_fw-la ordinatur_fw-la stat_fw-la coram_fw-la altari_fw-la subter_fw-la gradus_fw-la ipsius_fw-la caput_fw-la habens_fw-la apertum_fw-la &_o inclinatum_fw-la donec_fw-la perficiatur_fw-la oblatio_fw-la tunc_fw-la episcopus_fw-la tondet_fw-la in_o formam_fw-la crucis_fw-la capillos_fw-la ejus_fw-la qui_fw-la ordinatur_fw-la traditque_fw-la eum_fw-la institutori_fw-la svo_fw-la &_o praeceptum_fw-la that_o illi_fw-la de_fw-fr perfectione_n doctrinae_fw-la suae_fw-la &_o ordinis_fw-la svi_fw-la etc._n etc._n statim_fw-la postea_fw-la apprehendit_fw-la episcopus_fw-la manum_fw-la ejus_fw-la dexteram_fw-la dicitque_fw-la spiritus_fw-la sanctus_n vocat_fw-la te_fw-la cumque_fw-la introducit_fw-la ad_fw-la altar_n &_o procumbere_fw-la facit_fw-la super_fw-la duo_fw-la illius_fw-la genua_fw-la coram_fw-la altari_fw-la manus_fw-la habentem_fw-la junctas_fw-la ante_fw-la se_fw-la &_o orarium_fw-la diaconatus_fw-la super_fw-la se_fw-la etc._n etc._n archidiaconus_fw-la hoc_fw-la praeconium_fw-la proclamat_fw-la gratia_n domini_fw-la nostri_fw-la jesus_n christi_fw-la quae_fw-la omni_fw-la tempore_fw-la perficit_fw-la defectus_fw-la nostros_fw-la secundum_fw-la voluntatem_fw-la dei_fw-la patris_fw-la in_fw-la virtute_fw-la spiritus_fw-la sancti_fw-la adsit_fw-la iis_fw-la qui_fw-la hic_fw-la offeruntur_fw-la etc._n etc._n ipsa_fw-la est_fw-la quae_fw-la vocat_fw-la &_o offer_v ex_fw-la ordine_fw-la diaconorum_fw-la ad_fw-la ordinem_fw-la presbyteratus_n n._n presbyterum_fw-la ad_fw-la altar_n sanctum_fw-la &_o divinum_fw-la domus_fw-la genetricis_fw-la dei_fw-la mariae_fw-la etc._n etc._n precemur_fw-la igitur_fw-la omnes_fw-la ut_fw-la descendat_fw-la super_fw-la eos_fw-la gratia_fw-la &_o illapsus_fw-la spiritus_fw-la sancti_fw-la etc._n etc._n ter_z kyrie_fw-la eleison_fw-la &_o reliqua_fw-la episcopus_fw-la ponit_fw-la manus_fw-la svas_fw-la super_fw-la mysteria_fw-la &_o extendit_fw-la brachia_fw-la sva_fw-la colligitque_fw-la &_o contrahit_fw-la ea_fw-la tribus_fw-la vicibus_fw-la super_fw-la corpus_fw-la &_o sanguinem_fw-la accipiens_fw-la ex_fw-la calice_n in_fw-la pugillum_fw-la suum_fw-la dum_fw-la colligant_fw-la ea_fw-la &_o cooperiunt_fw-la peplo_fw-la seu_fw-la linteo_fw-la sacro_fw-la postea_fw-la revertitur_fw-la ad_fw-la illum_fw-la qui_fw-la est_fw-la ordinandus_fw-la &_o imponit_fw-la manus_fw-la super_fw-la caput_fw-la ejus_fw-la easque_fw-la illi_fw-la admetitur_fw-la iterumque_fw-la attollit_fw-la manus_fw-la porrigens_fw-la brachia_fw-la sva_fw-la in_o altum_fw-la easque_fw-la deprimit_fw-la tremulas_fw-la super_fw-la caput_fw-la ejus_fw-la hocque_fw-la tribus_fw-la vicibus_fw-la facit_fw-la episcopus_fw-la ipse_fw-la oculis_fw-la ipsius_fw-la desuper_fw-la cum_fw-la timore_fw-la aspicientibus_fw-la post_fw-la hoc_fw-la ponit_fw-la dexteram_fw-la svam_fw-la super_fw-la illius_fw-la caput_fw-la &_o tegit_fw-la manus_fw-la &_o caput_fw-la illius_fw-la qui_fw-la ordinatur_fw-la cum_fw-la phaina_n dextera_fw-la illius_fw-la ponetur_fw-la super_fw-la ejus_fw-la caput_fw-la &_o sinistra_fw-la hinc_fw-la &_o hinc_fw-la movebitur_fw-la circumferetque_fw-la sinistram_fw-la svam_fw-la tribus_fw-la vicibus_fw-la super_fw-la cervicem_fw-la ipsius_fw-la &_o faciem_fw-la etc._n etc._n invocatio_fw-la spiritus_fw-la sancti_fw-la etc._n etc._n postea_fw-la revertitur_fw-la episcopus_fw-la ad_fw-la occidentem_fw-la ad_fw-la eum_fw-la qui_fw-la ordinatur_fw-la imponitque_fw-la dexte_v ram_n svam_fw-la super_fw-la caput_fw-la ejus_fw-la &_o eum_fw-la signat_fw-la inter_fw-la oculos_fw-la sic_fw-la dicens_fw-la ordinatus_fw-la est_fw-la in_o ecclesia_fw-la sancta_fw-la dei._n archidiaconus_fw-la dicit_fw-la n._n presbyter_n ad_fw-la altar_n sanctum_fw-la domus_fw-la genetricis_fw-la dei._n episcopus_fw-la 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