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Plenary

PLENARY (Liber plenarius): The term applied in the early Middle Ages to a missal containing all the liturgy appertaining to the mass, thus combining what was usually scattered through the sacramentary, gradual, and lectionary. Though such plenaries existed in the ninth century, the extant manuscript copies are not older than the eleventh. Later in the Middle Ages the plenaries were translated into German with various additions explanatory of the mass. The name was likewise applied to lectionaries containing the epistles and Gospels for Sundays and feasts, with glosses or postils on the Gospels; and the plenaries came to be called simply Gospel books or postils. With the Reformation the plenary vanished, none being known to have been issued after 1521.

(P. Drews.)

Bibliography: J. Alzog, in Freiburger Diöcesan-Archiv, viii (1874), 255 sqq.; M. F. A. G. Campbell, Annales de la typographie néerlandaise au 15. siècle, The Hague 1874; F. Folk, Die Druckkunst im Dienste der Kirche, pp. 29 sqq., Cologne, 1879; R. Cruel, Geschichte der deutschen Predigt im Mittelalter, pp. 533 sqq., Detmar, 1879.

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