Mark Blackburn (numismatist) Mark Blackburn (numismatist) Mark Alistair Sinclair Blackburn, (5 January 1953 – 1 September 2011) was a British numismatist and economic historian. He was Keeper of Coins and Medals at Fitzwilliam Museum from 1991 to 2011, Reader in Numismatics and Monetary History at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2011, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 2005. He was the President of the British Numismatic Society between 2004 and 2008. In 1983, Blackburn was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical
Collect Missal allowed and often prescribed the use of more than one collect, all but the first being recited under a single conclusion. This custom, which began north of the Alps, had reached Rome by about the 12th century. In the 1973 translation of the Roman Missal by the ICEL, the word "collecta" was rendered as "Opening Prayer". This was a misnomer, since the collect ends—rather than opens—the introductory rites of the Mass. The collects in the "Book of Common Prayer" are mainly translations by Thomas Cranmer (d. 1556) from the Latin prayers for each Sunday of the year. At Morning