From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14248 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, July 10 2024 Volume 14 : Number 14248 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Order Now To Get A Special 7O% OFF ["Enence Translator" Subject: Order Now To Get A Special 7O% OFF Order Now To Get A Special 7O% OFF http://visisharpsd.shop/yFLOWs6PKDOAGSJwva4jBNqUShPpc7YOzRmqJO8Jwjfckmm97Q http://visisharpsd.shop/Z2elRloD3low4iTUP06luZRNhi1-9oLQAqATnd9PhnJitmKULA ology of the word "primer" in reference to a type of prayer book is unknown, primers originated in texts produced for laity in the 14th century that developed out of and in correspondence with editions of the breviary and the related portiforium.:?69? Liturgical historian Edmund Bishop forwarded the view that the contents of these primers were pious devotional developments from the Divine Office according monastic use that were gradually viewed as obligatory within those communities. However, it is likely that the distinction between these devotions and the Divine Office were maintained and understood by those employing them. The earliest of these accretions were the Seven Penitential Psalms and the Fifteen Psalms. Further additions came with the 10th-century ascendancy of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Laity in Western Christendom would attend recitation of the Divine Office, with women noted to have said the prayers in a low voice. However, the time needed to thoroughly learn the intricacies of the breviaries proved prohibitive to laypersons. Those devotions which were mostly invariable were adapted into primers.:?70? The introduction of the Office of the Dead and its variants of Matins and Vespers would, alongside the Little Office, form the basis of primers for several centuries.:?71? Historians differ in what constituted a medieval primer vis-C -vis an horae or book of hours: Alan Jacobs described the primary distinction between the texts being that, in the Middle Ages, books known as primers were in Englis ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14248 ***********************************************