Diurnal

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The Diurnale is a liturgical book of the Roman rite .

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A diurnale (also called diurnum , breviarium diurnum , compendium diurni or horae diurnae ) is a sub-volume of the breviary . It contains in compact, one-volume form the texts for the times of day of each day in the narrower sense, the daily hearings from Lauds to Compline , i.e. with the exception of Matins . Its counterpart is the nocturnale . The internal structure and the composition of the parts essentially correspond to the full brevier. In contrast to the Breviary, the Diurnale is an unofficial liturgical book. Its manufacture met a practical need of thoseClerics , for whom a book form was desired for the divine office during the day, which, due to the elimination of the extensive night office (Matutin), was more handy and convenient than the full breviary. The much smaller volume compared to the breviary made the division into two volumes for the diurnal, as in the case of the breviary (winter and summer part), generally unnecessary. Pure forms of the diurnal, however, hardly ever occur; rather, the prints, like the manuscripts, almost always contain certain components of the night office.

variants

As with the breviary, there were different forms of the diurnal:

  • Diurnale Romanum
  • Diurnalia of the monastic communities, e.g. B. Diurnale Cartusiense (Diurnale of the Carthusians )
  • Diurnalia of individual dioceses , e.g. B. Diurnale Coloniensis (Cologne Diurnale)

expenditure

Diurnale Romanum

Diurnale monasticum

literature

  • Hanns Peter Neuheuser: Typology and terminology of liturgical books. ( Full text )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diurnale in the complete catalog of incidental prints