 It was bought by the Earl of Ashburnham in 1849, and from his collection it went to the Royal Irish Academy.It contains part of the Gospel of St. John, probably quite unconnected with what follows, bound up with the Ordinary and Canon of the Mass, three Masses, the Order of Baptism and of the Visitation, Unction, and Communion of the Sick, and a treatise in Irish on the Mass, of which a variant is found in the "Leabhar Breac".The non-Roman elements in the Stowe Missal are