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<p> Under this head we give additional particulars respecting the clerical garments: </p> <p> In [[England]] the canons wore a surplice, a black, close, and sleeveless cope, and the gray almuce or hood: regulars used the rochet, and monks their proper habit, but on the Continent the colors are more brilliant. At Pisa, in winter, they wear a large red cope, and in summer a red mozzetta over a rochet; at Salerno, crimison tunicles and rochets, and the hebdomadary wears violet; at Urgel the cope was red, but at Tortosa and Geroana black; at [[Valencia]] the cope worn over a rochet is superbly furred, and has a violet hood lined with ermine in winter, and with crimson silk in summer; at Besanpon the camail, or hood, is of blue silk, lined with red taffeta; at Strasburgg the cope of red velvet is lined with erninle, and has gold guards; at Catania the mozzetta of black cloth is worn over the rochet; at [[Syracuse]] the morizetta is violet, as at Malta, where it is used with a rochet and cope; at [[Vienne]] the cope was black, at [[Rouen]] it was violet. </p> <p> At [[Burgos]] the canons wear in winter a cope, mozzetta, and a surplice with sleeves elevated on the shoulders. By the [[Council]] of Tortosa, 1429, the use of furs was restricted to dignitaries and cathedral canons; but in some special cases in England priest-vicars, who represented .dignitaries or priest-canons, as at Exeter, and the subdean of minor canons at St. Paul's, wore a gray almuce, lined with black cloth; at Burgos the vicars' surplices reached to the ground, and were rolled over the hands. At St. Paul's the vicars wore a plain almuce of black cloth, and lined or doubled cap. As early as 1386, the Council of Saltzburg required a distinlction to be made in the choral dress of canons and vicars. Canons formerly wore violet only in their robes, until the Council of [[Trent]] changed the color to black. At [[Ratisbon]] the choir- tippet, or-mozzetta, is of red silk; in [[France]] the camail is black, edged with the same color, in the diocese of Bayeux; in the south, as at Montauban, it is often crimson ermined, and generally rich in hue. At [[Verona]] blue cassocks are worn; in [[Normandy]] they are scarlet for the choristers; at [[Milan]] the scarlet cape and mantle are worn by canons; the vicars carry furred capes on their arm, and the lay singaeis have hooded black mantles, faced with green. </p>

 

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