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(Most of Genesis 5, 31 – 8, 21, the second Prophecy of the Roman Rite, is read in both the Dominican and Roman Breviaries in Sexagesima week.)
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This seems to result from the generally accepted custom of always singing the two hours together as a unit, a custom which is simply assumed as the norm by the Breviary of St. Pius V, and earlier Breviaries as well.
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In that and the Breviaries did the whole worship of the church issue, at lease in these parts of the world.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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There's a perennial demand from the whole clergy for various books-Missals, Scripture, Breviaries, the Summa, encyclopediae, and the like.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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While modern Breviaries are nearly always printed in four volumes, one for each season of the year, the editions of the Sarum never exceeded two parts.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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From a bibliographical point of view some of the early printed Breviaries are among the rarest of literary curiosities, being merely local.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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In the 17th and 18th centuries a movement of revision took place in France, and succeeded in modifying about half the Breviaries of that country.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The beauty and value of many of the Latin Breviaries were brought to the notice of English churchmen by one of the numbers of the Oxford _Tracts for the Times_, since which time they have been much more studied, both for their own sake and for the light they throw upon the English Prayer-Book.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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The Jansenist and Gallican influence was also strongly felt in Italy and in Germany, where Breviaries based on the French models were published at Cologne, Münster, Mainz and other towns.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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There are several extant specimens of 12th-century Breviaries, all Benedictine, but under Innocent
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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