diurnals

They include graduals, antiphonals, diurnals, collectars, and psalters. 77 Some of these texts are decorated with elaborate pictorial elements and others are purely utilitarian.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

However, many of the antiphonals belonging to male Dominican houses were broken up into two volumes for winter and summer usage. 106 Occasionally, houses had diurnals, manuscripts containing antiphonal materials for the daytime offices but excluding compline and matins.

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The manuscript diversification of 1300 also saw the proliferation of special office books for processions and essential rituals. 109 Among the broader survey of manuscripts (Table 4), there are as many processionals as there are graduals, antiphons, and diurnals together, 21 out of 76 or 27.6 percent. 110 However, from the six core houses, these types of manuscripts represent only 14 percent of the total.

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The _Lycoenidoe_ [1], a particularly attractive group, abound near the enclosures of cultivated grounds, and amongst the low shrubs edging the patenas, flitting from flower to flower, inspecting each in turn, and as if attracted by their beauty, in the full blaze of sun-light; and shunning exposure less sedulously than the other diurnals.

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

The _Lycanidæ_ [1], a particularly attractive group, abound near the enclosures of cultivated grounds, and amongst the low shrubs edging the patenas, flitting from flower to flower, inspecting each in turn, as if attracted by their beauty, in the full blaze of sun-light; and shunning exposure less sedulously than the other diurnals.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

It was in every coffee-house, and in half the diurnals.

Peveril of the Peak 1822

It was in every coffee-house, and in half the diurnals.

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

This is certainly one of the most evil and lying of the Republican diurnals.p. 378 _Hutchinson.

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

But our people must have something in their diurnals; we must ever and anon be telling them our minds; or if we be at it when we raise taxes, like those gentlemen with the finger and the thumb, they will swear that we are cutpurses.

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644