Sacramentary
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The Sacramentary is a book containing the prayers that the priest recited at Mass. Other books used include the Gradual (texts mainly from the Psalms, with musical notes added), the Evangelary or Gospel Book, and the Epistolary with texts from other parts of the New Testament, mainly the Epistles (letters) of Saint Paul.
In late mediaeval times, these books began to be combined, for the use of priests saying Mass without the assistance of a choir and other ministers. This led to the appearance of the Missale plenum ("full or complete Missal") containing all the texts of the Mass (without the music of the choir parts).
Pope Pius V published in 1570 an official version of such a Missal, known as the Roman Missal.
At the behest of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI greatly increased the amount of Sacred Scripture read at Mass and, to a lesser extent, the prayer formulas. This necessitated a return to having the readings in a separate book, known as the Lectionary. A separate Book of the Gospels, with texts extracted from the Lectionary, is recommended, but is not obligatory. The Roman Missal continues to include elaborate rubrics, as well as antiphons etc., which were not in sacramentaries.
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[edit] Surviving sacramentaries
Most of these are Illuminated manuscripts
[edit] 6th/7th century
- Sacramentary of Pope Leo the Great (440-461) - "Leonianum" or "Veronense"
- Gelasian Sacramentary of Pope Gelasius I (492-496) - some attribute it instead to early 8th century
[edit] 7th century
- Sacramentary of Pope Gregory the Great (590-604) - "Gregorianum"
- Sacramentary of Bishop Marinianus of Ravenna (595-606?)
- Gallican Sacramentary - "Gallicanum"
[edit] 8th century
- The sacramentary known as "Gregorianum-Hadrianum", which Charlemagne (768-814), wishing to unify the liturgy in his Frankish realm, is said to have got from Pope Hadrian I (772-795)
- Sacramentary of Bobbio
- Sacramentary of Pippin - Gelasian type
- Sacramentary of Gellone - c. 780
- Sacramentary of Bishop Arbeo of Freising (†783)
- Sacramentary of Rheinau - c. 795/800
- Sacramentary of Angoulême - Gelasian type
- Sacramentary of Monza
[edit] 9th century
- Sacramentary of Amiens
- Sacramentary of Mainz- Collegiate Saint Alban ante Mainz
- Sacramentary of Trent - "Codex Tridentinus"
- Sacramentary of Autun - "Codex Augustodunensis", c. 845
- Drogo Sacramentary of Bishop Drogo (823-855) - 850
- Sacramentary of Metz - probably made for Charles the Bald: it includes a miniature of his coronation
- Sacramentary of Echternach
- Sacramentary of Pamelius
[edit] 10th century
- Sacramentary of the Monastery of Petershausen (near Reichenau)
- Sacramentary of Fulda
- Sacramentary of St Gereon
[edit] 11th century
- Sacramentary of Bishop Warmondo
- Sacramentary of Figeac
- Sacramentary of Venice
- Sacramentary of Salzburg
- Sacramentary of the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille
- Sacramentary of Regensburg
- Sacramentary of Minden or of Bishop Sigebert (1022-1036)
- Sacramentary of St. Gallen (with famous picture of Pentecost)
- Sacramentary of Lorsch
- Tyniec Sacramentary
[edit] 12th century
- Sacramentary of Tours
- Sacramentary of Ratmann - 1159
- Sacramentary of Millstatt - 1170/1180
[edit] 13th century
- Sacramentary of Abbot Berthold (Abbey of Weingarten) - 1217
- Sacramentary of Hainricus Sacrista - c. 1220
In addition:
- Sacramentary of Biasca (Ambrosian Rite)
- Sacramentary of St Paul
- Sacramentary of Brescia
- Sacramentary of Essen
- Sacramentary of Chantilly
- Sacramentary of Jena
- Sacramentary of Prague
- Sacramentary of Beauvais
- Sacramentary of Remedius - Gelasian type
- Sacramentary of Maria Laach
