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Heortology: A History of the Christian Festivals

by K. A. Heinrich Kellner

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Books Quoted and Referred To

(A) Mediæval Works, Which in Some Degree Are of the Nature of Original Sources

Isidore of Seville († 658).—De Officiis Ecclesiasticis. Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxxiii.

Amalarius Symphosius (“chor-episcopus” at Metz, † between 850 and 853).—De Officiis Ecclesiasticis libri quattuor. Migne, Patr. Lat., cv.

Rabanus Maurus (Abbot of Fulda, later Archbishop of Mainz, † 856).—De Officiis Ecclesiasticis. Migne, Patr. Lat., cvii.

Ado (Bishop of Vienne, † 875).—Libellus de Festivitatibus SS. Apost. Migne, Patr. Lat., cxxiii.

Johannes Abrincensis (Bishop of Rouen, † 1079).—De Officiis Ecclesiasticis. Migne, Patr. Lat., cxlvii. Ordinarius Canonicorum Reg., ib. 188-191.

Pseudo-Alcuin (middle of the eleventh century).—De Officiis Ecclesiasticis. Incomplete in Migne, Patr. Lat., ci. 1175. According to Bäumer, Amalarius Fortunatus is really the author.

Berno of Reichenau († 1045).—De Officio Missæ, and two small tracts on Advent and the Embertides. Migne, Patr. Lat., cxlii.

Lanfranc († 1089).—Decreta pro Ord. S. Benedicti. Migne, Patr. Lat., cl.

Bernold of Constance († 1100). According to Bäumer, the author of the Micrologus. Migne, Patr. Lat., cli.

De Cærimoniis, Sacramentis, Officiis et Observantionibus Ecclesiæ libri tres, by Hugo (Canon of St Victor in Paris, † 1118), or by Robertus Pullus. Migne, Patr. Lat., clxxvii. 381.

Rupert of Deutz († 1135).—De Divinis Officiis. Migne, Patr. Lat., clxx.

Guigo I. de Castro (Prior of the Grande Chartreuse about 1137).—Consuetudines Carthusienses. Migne, Patr. Lat., clii. 631-759.

Honorius of Autun († circ. 1145).—Gemma Animæ. Migne, Patr. Lat., clxxii.

Johannes Beleth (Professor of Theology at Paris, † 1190).—Rationale Divinorum Officiorum. Migne, Patr. Lat., ccii.

Consuetudines Farfenses, ed. B. Albers. Stuttgart, 1900. Older editions in Migne, Patr. Lat., c. 4, and (Hergott) Vetus Disciplina Monast. Paris, 1776.

Sicardus (Bishop of Cremona, † 1215).—Mitrale. Migne, Patr. Lat., ccxiii.

Innocent III. (Pope, † 1216).—De S. Altaris Mysterio libri sex. Migne, Patr. Lat., ccxvii.

Odericus (Canon of Siena, 1213).—Ordo Officiorum Eccl. Senensis. Ed. Trombelli. Bononiæ, 1766.

Codinus.—Curopalates s. de Officialibus Palatii Constantinopolitani et de Officiis Magnæ Ecclesiæ. Rec. Imm. Bekker. Bonn, 1839.

(B) More Recent Works Employed or Referred To

(a) By Catholic Authors

Allatius, Leo.—De Dominicis et Hebdomadibus Græcorum Recentiorum. Col., 1648.

Arens, Franz.—Der Liber Ordinarius der Essener Stiftskirche, Essen, 1901.

Assemani, Jos. Sim.—Kalendaria Ecclesiæ Univ. Romæ, 1730. Six vols.

Baillet, Adrien († 1706).—Les Vies des Saints. Paris, 1703; second ed. 1739, in ten vols. 4to. Vol. ix. contains a history of the movable feasts.

Bäumer, Suitb.—Geschichte des Breviers, etc. Freiburg, 1895.

Benedict XIV. (Prosper Lambertini).—De Festis D.N. Jesu Christi et B. Mariæ Virginis libri duo. Patavii, 1756.

— Commentarius de Festis B. Virg. Mariæ, etc. Dillingen, 1754.

Binterim, Anton. Jos.—Denkwürdigkeiten der Kathol. Kirche. Mainz, 1829, especially vol. v. part i: “Die kirchichle Heortologie und Chronologie.”

— Pragmatische Geschichte der deutschen Konzilien. Mainz, 1836.

Chevalier, Ul.—Bibliothèque Liturgique. Ordinaires de l’Eglise cath. de Laon. Paris, 1897.—Sacramentaire et Martyrologe de S. Remy et de Reims. Paris, 1900. Ib. of Bayeux. Paris, 1903.

Combefis, Fr., O.S.D. († 1679).—Bibliotheca Patrum Concionatoria. Paris, 1662. Eight vols. A collection of sermons of the Fathers and older scholastics up to St Thomas Aquinas for the whole ecclesiastical year and the principal saints’ days.

Duchesne, L.—Origines du Culte Chrétien. Third ed. Paris. [Engl. transl. by M. L. Maclure, London, 1903.]

Gavantus, Barth. (Mediol.).—Thesaurus Sacrorum Rituum. Romæ, 1628. Amstelod., 1634.

— Id. op., with Novæ observationes et additiones, etc., by C. M. Merati. Romæ, 1735. Aug. Vind., 1740.

Gretser, Jac., S. J.—De Festis Christianorum libri duo. (Ingolstadii, 1612), with Auctarium.

Guéranger, Prosp.—L’Année Liturgique. Translated anonymously into German, with a Preface by J. B. Heinrich. Mainz, 1888-1894. Thirteen vols.

Guyet, Car.—Heortologia. Venetiis, 1729. Almost entirely occupied with the rubrics.

Hoeynck, F. A.—Gesch. der kirchl. Liturgie des Bistums Augsburg. Augsburg, 1889.

Holweck, F. G.—Fasti Mariani. Frib. Brisg., 1892.

Mabillon, Joh.—De Liturgia Gallicana libri tres. Paris, 1685, and in Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxii.

Martène, Edmund.—De Antiquis Ecclesiæ Disciplinis. Antwerp, 1737.

Marzohl, J., and J. Schneller.—Liturgia Sacra oder Gebräuche und Altertümer der Kathol. Kirche. Five vols. Lucerne, 1841. Vol. iii. pp. 55-172 deals with the ecclesiastical year and festivals.

Migne, Abbé.—Diction. des Cérémonies et des Rites Sacrés. German transl. by E. Schinke and Jos. Kühn. Breslau, 1850.

Morcelli, Seph. A.—Μηνολόγιον τῶν Ἐυαγγελίων Ἑορταστικῶν, sive Kalendarium Eccl. Constantinopolitanæ Mille Annorum Insigne. Romæ, 1788.

Muratori, L. A.—Liturgia Rom. Vetus, tria Sacramentaria complectens Leon., Gel., et Antiquum Gregor. Accedunt Missale Francorum, Gothicum et Galicana duo, etc. Venetiis, 1748. The Preface and the Gelasianum are printed in Migne, Patr. Lat., lxxiv.

Nickel, Marc. Ad.—Die heiligen Zeiten und Feste nach ihrer Geschichte und Feier. Six vols. Mainz, 1825-1838.

Nilles, Nic. S. J.—Kalendarium Manuale utriusque Ecclesiæ Orient. et Occid. Ed. Altera. Two vols. Œniponte, 1896.

Pilgram.—Kalendarium Chronol. medii potissimum ævi monumentis accomodatum. Vienna, 1781.

Probst, Ferd.—Die ältesten Römischen Sakramentarien und Ordines erläutert. Paderborn, 1892.

Schmid, Frz. X.—Liturgik der christkathol. Religion. Three vols. Passau, 1831. Vol. iii. pp. 441-610 deals with the festivals.

Schulting, Corn.—Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica. Col. Agr., 1599. Tom. i. c. 9-17 and tom. ii.

Thomassin, Louis (Cong. Orat. Presb.)—Traité des Festes de l’Eglise. The second vol. contains “Traités Historiques et Dogmatiques sur divers Points de la Discipline de l’Eglise et de la Morale Chrétienne.” Paris, 1683.

Tomasi, Gius. Maria (Cardinal, † 1731).—Opera. Ed. Vezzosi. Rome, 1748, etc.

Veith, P. Ildefous.—On the Latin Martyrologies in the Hist.-pol. Blätter, 1895 and 1896. On the Greek Martyrologies in Studien und Mitteilungen aus dem Benediktinerorden, 1896 and 1897. See the Katholik, 1894, ii. 314 et seqq.

(b) By Non-Catholic Authors

Achelis, Hans.—Die Martyrologien, ihre Geschichte und ihr Wert. Berlin, 1900.

Alt, Heinrich (Preacher of La Charité).—Das Kirchenjahr. Berlin, 1860.

Augusti, J. Chr. Wilh.—Denkwürdigkeiten. Leipzig, 1817, etc. Vols. i.-iii.: “Die Feste der alten Christen für Religionslehrer und gebildete Laien aller Konfessionen.” (The author gives one or two sermons from the Fathers for each feast as an appendix.)

Daniel, Henr. Adalf.—Codex liturgicus ecclesiæ universæ. Four vols. Lipsiæ, 1847.

Dresser, Matth.—De festis et præcipius anni partibus. Lipsiæ, 1584.

Erbes.—Das Syrische Martyrologium und der Weihnachtsfestkreis in Brieger’s “Zeitschr. für Kirchengesch,” 1905, iv., and 1906, i.

Haltaus, Chr. Gottlob.—Jahrzeitbuch der Deutschen des Mittelalters. Translated by G. A. Scheffer. Erlangen, 1797.

Hospinianus (Wirth), Rud.—De Festis Christianorum. Genevæ, 1574. Turici, 1593.

Maltzew, A. von.—Fasten-und Blumen-Triodion, etc. Berlin, 1899. The Introduction deals with the ecclesiastical year of the Orthodox, Armenian, and Roman Catholic Churches.

Ranke, E.—Das Kirchl. Perikopensystem aus den ältesten Urkunden der römischen Liturgie dargelegt und erläutert. Berlin, 1847.

Strauss, Friedr.—Das evangelische Kirchenjahr in seinem Zusammenhange dargestellt. Berlin, 1850.

Usener, Herm.—Religionsgeschichte Untersuchungen. Das Weihnachtsfest. Bonn, 1889.

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