He taught them Greek and Latin, and wrote for them psalteries, hymnaries, and breviaries. |
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The first breviaries, which appeared in the 11th century, were choir books containing the whole office in one book. |
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I can also tell that a great deal of time and work went in to the breviaries at all of the stages of this ambitious project. |
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In the picture you can see that the cover will be just as flexible as were earlier breviaries. |
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As a rule the Office books or breviaries were printed only in Latin and not in vernacular translations. |
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This comprises choir psalters for the Eucharist, breviaries and antiphonaries as well as missals, lectionaries and graduales, which were used during mass. |
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Today, a search on eBay turns up hundreds of leaves culled from atlases, Bibles, breviaries, and especially books of hours, which remain the most sought-after manuscripts among casual collectors. |
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The bishops had failed to win the priests' release, but they had secured for them breviaries, a chapel, regular Masses, and a separate priests' block in Dachau. |
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In order to prevent this, we chose watertight endpapers of artificial leather, that are of the same quality as as materials used in the older breviaries. |
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After the appearance in the 13th century of the mendicant orders—religious orders whose work, primarily itinerant preaching and teaching, often did not allow them to reside in common the need for portable breviaries arose. |
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