Temporale

A complete cycle of them, the work of several authors, in which are mixed together old and novel, English and foreign, materials, was written in English verse in the thirteenth century: "The collection in its complete state is a 'Liber Festivalis,' containing sermons or materials for sermons, for the festivals of the year in the order of the calendar, and comprehends not only saints 'lives for saints' days but also a 'Temporale' for the festivals of Christ,"

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Graduals contained the choral parts of the Mass, arranged according to the Temporale, the Sanctorale, and then the Common of the Saints. 93 They included graduals (responses and versicles to the Epistle readings of the Mass), introits (the first sung elements of the Mass), tracts, alleluias, offertories, and communions. 94 Sometimes they also gave the sequences (extended melodies sung by a soloist or the choir).

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The feasts of saints which took place between Christmas and Epiphany were usually included in the Temporale, except in Dominican and usually Cistercian usage.

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The two graduals from St. Katharinenthal contain much more extensive decorative schemes, with many illuminated initials throughout the Temporale and Sanctorale. 102

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The introit for the first Sunday in Advent, Ad te levavi, was usually one of the most elaborately decorated as this introit opened the Temporale and hence the gradual proper. 99 None of the graduals of German Dominican women were decorated with miniatures, only decorated or historiated initials.

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The manuscript continues with the incipits for the Gospel readings arranged by Temporale and Sanctorale, followed by the nuns 'constitutions.

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As in the graduals, the opening initials of the Temporale are emphasized prominently.

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Since the spring of 2007 there has been an entire revision of the Psalter [A-1 through A-12] and the Temporale [B-1 through B-5].

"Music of the Sarum Office" bls 2008

Since the spring of 2007 there has been an entire revision of the Psalter [A-1 through A-12] and the Temporale [B-1 through B-5].

Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008

25In liturgical manuscripts the annual cycle of celebrations was divided in two ways. 64 The first and most important of these was the Temporale.

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