Sometimes includes tables with distribution of readings according to the calendar. Rectangular decorated block added to fill in awkward gaps of empty space left by short text lines. Aids in maintaining a visual unity to the textblock. Litany List of saints' names invoked for deliverance and intercession. Normally begins with the Trinity, the Virgin, archangels and angels, disciples and apostles and continues with individual martyrs, confessors, and virgins.
Series often includes patrons of local cults.
Missal Liturgical book with recited and sung text at Mass. Selections from the Bible and moralizing explanations juxtaposed to demonstrate typological links between two events, in particular NT themes as fulfillment of OT prophecy. Transformed into picture Bibles as highly developed form of religious instruction in 13th- and 14th c. Europe. Neumatic notation Graphic signs representing the movement in pitch of a melody. Simple neumes refer to single notes.