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The Historical Background of the English Lectionary of 1955
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The preface to the Book of Common Prayer, entitled Concerning the Service of the Church since 1662, but before that simply The Preface, was derived substantially from the preface to the revised Breviary of Quiñones, which was one of the sources for the revised daily offices of the Church of England. It appeals from what it considers the corruptions of the medieval office to the ‘godly and decent order of the ancient Fathers’. This order, it says, was devised for the systematic reading of holy scripture in the offices of the Church, and it was the intention of the compilers of the English Prayer Book to restore such a regular order of reading for the instruction of the people. It represented a revolt against three features of the lessons in the medieval breviary: first, against the frequent interruptions of the reading of scripture in course by the occurrence of feasts with proper lessons; secondly, the lack of completeness and continuity in the lessons themselves; and thirdly, the use of non-biblical material in the lessons. Even if the daily office of the breviary, which is based on the ecclesiastical year, were not interrupted by any immoveable feasts having proper lessons, it would still not provide for the reading of the whole of scripture, as its lessons are too short, and also the variable lessons are confined to the night office.
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page 74 note 1 The Table of Lessons revised by order of the Convocations of Canterbury and York and authorized by resolutions of both Convocations at the sessions of October 1955. Revised Edition 1958. Church Information Board, Church House, Westminster S.W.I.
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page 74 note 3 The orders will be referred to by the number of the Ordo, followed by the number of the paragraph according to Andrieu's edition, e.g. XIV, 1.
page 74 note 4 Ordo XIV, 2: Tempore ueris hoc est VII diebus ante initium quatragesimae usque ad octauam diem ante pascha leguntur quinque libri moysi cum Iesu Naue et Iudicum.
page 74 note 5 Ordo XIII A, 1: In primis in septuagesima paschae ponunt eptaticum usque in quinto decimo die ante pascha.
page 75 note 1 Ordo XIV, 3: et septem dies ante Pascha liber Isaiae prophetae.
page 75 note 2 The abbreviations M.P. = Morning Prayer and E.P. = Evening Prayer will be used throughout.
page 75 note 3 Ordo XIV, 3: unde ad passionem Christi conuenit et lamentationis Hieremiae.
page 75 note 4 Ordo XIII A, 3: Feria V in caena Domini legunt lectiones tres de lamentatione Hieremiae.
page 75 note 5 Ordo XIV, 5.
page 75 note 6 Ordo XIII A, 7.
page 76 note 1 Ordo XIV, 6.
page 76 note 2 Ordo XIII A, 8–10.
page 77 note 1 Ordo XIV, 3.
page 77 note 2 Ordo XIV, 8: postea quidem Ezekiel et prophetae minores atque Iob usque idus februarias.
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page 78 note 2 Ordo XIV, 9: psalmi omni tempore, euangelium et apostolum similiter.
page 78 note 3 Ordo XIII A, 20.
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page 80 note 2 Aug., Serm., 319, i. 1; vii. 7.
page 80 note 3 Aug., Serm., 314, 1; 315, i. 7; 317, iv. 5; 318, 1; 319, i. 1; viii. 7.
page 80 note 4 Ordo XIII A, 14.
page 80 note 5 Ordo XIII A, 18.
page 80 note 6 Frere, op. cit., ii. no. 8 b.
page 80 note 7 Aug., Serm., 199–204.
page 81 note 1 Frere, op. cit., iii. no. 11.
page 81 note 2 Ordo XIII A, 18.
page 81 note 3 Aug., Serm., 199–204.
page 81 note 4 Aug., Serm., 205–208.
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page 82 note 1 Frere, op. cit, iii. no. LXIV.
page 82 note 2 ibid., no. LXIII a.
page 82 note 3 Aug., Serm., 119, 1; 120, 1.
page 82 note 4 Aug., Serm., 232, i. 1; see also En. II in Ps. XXI, 2; Guelf. II, I.
page 83 note 1 Frere, op. cit., ii. no. 96.
page 83 note 2 ibid., ii. no. 101.
page 83 note 3 Aug., Serm., 239, 247.
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page 84 note 1 Exod. xv. Frere, op. cit., iii. no. LXVI d, e.
page 84 note 2 ibid., no. LXVI, h.
page 85 note 1 Frere, op. cit., ii. no. 132.
page 85 note 2 Aug., Serm., 395, 2; Guelf. XXI, 3; Bibl. Casin. II, 76, 3.
page 85 note 3 Ordo XIII A, 21.
page 86 note 1 Frere, op. cit., iii. no. CLX.