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Missal 1) Calendar 2) Temporale or Proper of Time
containing the variable parts of the Mass for every Sunday
+ weekday throughout the year beginning with the 1st Sun.
in Advent. 3) Ordinary (unchanging introductory part,
including the Gloria + Credo), Prefaces for various days
(always beginning "Vere dignum et justum est" + often
set to music) + Canon of the Mass.
Tese are usuaally placed in the middle of the Temporale,
just before Easter. 4) Sanctorale or Proper of Saints -
generally beginning with St. Andrew (Nov. 30)
5) Common of Saints 6) Votive Masses for
special occasions; followed by various prayers.
- first introit of the Temporale "Ad te levavi animan
meam."
The Breviary contains the office i.e. the service to be said
or sund every day by the clergy at the cnonical hours.
These services consist mainly of psalms, interspersed
with anti phone, verses, + responses, Together with a few
hymns + prayers.
The Psalter contains the 150 Psalms, usually preceded
by a calendar + followed by the Te Deum + other
Canticles, a litany of Saints, + prayers; often too, by
Vigils of the Dead.
Gradual + Antiphones contain the choral parts of
the Mass + Office respectively. Thus the Gradual
answers to the Missal, the Antiphoner to the
Breviary.

incunabulum - neuter singular
incunabula " pleural
The designation incunabula for the
earliest printed books of Christendom
was 1st used in 1653 by Phillippe Labbe in a Latin treatise
on the old books of the royal library of Paris.