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Lectionary

The Roman Catholic Mass Lectionary is the basis on which many Protestant lectionaries have been based, most notably the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) and its derivatives, as organized by the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT) organization located in Nashville, Tennessee.


Biblioteca Vallicelliana

In this number about 3 000 manuscripts written in Latin, Greek, among them Bible of Alcuin from the 9th century, lectionary from the 12th century etc.

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Currently, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom has adopted the Revised Standard Version - Second Catholic Edition as "the sole lectionary authorized for use" in its liturgies.

String section

Nicolas Slonimsky described the cellos-on-the-right arrangement as part of a 20th century "sea change" (Lectionary of Music, p. 342 (McGraw-Hill 1989).


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