[76] The date of this Council is sometimes placed as early as A.D. 656.
[77] [See esp. the Protevangelium Jacobi. Edd.]
[78] In the printed Sarum books the Assumption was a ‘principal double’; the Purification and Nativity ‘greater doubles’; and the Annunciation a ‘lesser double.’
[79] For these, and varieties as to the day of observance, see Grotefend, Zeitrechnung des deutsch. Mittelalters u. der Neuzeit.
[80] [See the Protevangelium (cc. 7, 8). Edd.]
[81] [See however Gasquet and Bishop, Bosworth Psalter, pp. 49 f. Edd.]
[82] [This legend also appears in the Protevangelium (cc. 1-5). Edd.]
[83] [Gasquet and Bishop, Bosworth Psalter, pp. 43 ff. Edd.]
[84] Summa, P. III. qu. 27, art. 2.
[85] Both these constitutions will be found in the Common Extravagants, lib. iii. tit. 12.