Catholic liturgical books

thumb|290x290px|Printed antiphonary (ca. 1700) open to Vespers of Easter Sunday. ([[Musée de l'Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris)]] An antiphonary or antiphonal is one of the liturgical books intended for use (i.e. in the liturgical choir), and originally characterized, as its name implies, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the Latin liturgical rites.

thumb|300px|Detail of Menologium, showing saints and martyrs of December, January and February, painted by John Tokhabi, 11th century [[tetraptych, kept at the Saint Catherine's Monastery.]] A menologium (, pl. menologia), also known by other names, is any collection of information arranged according to the days of a month, usually a set of such collections for all the months of the year. In particular, it is used for ancient Roman farmers' almanacs (); for the untitled Old English poem on the Julian calendar that appears in a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; for the liturgical books (

Christian prayer book

In the Western Church of the Early and High Middle Ages, a sacramentary was a book used for liturgical services and the mass by a bishop or priest. Sacramentaries include only the words spoken or sung by him, unlike the missals of later centuries that include all the texts of the mass whether read by the bishop, priest, or others. Also, sacramentaries, unlike missals, include texts for services other than the mass such as ordinations, the consecration of a church or altar, exorcisms, and blessings, all of which were later included in Pontificals and Rituals instead.

The Evangeliary or Book of the Gospels is a liturgical book containing only those portions of the four gospels which are read during Mass or in other public offices of the Church. The corresponding terms in Latin are and .

book of Christian liturgy

thumb|Gregorian chant setting for [[Kyrie XI notated in neumes.]]

ancient Irish manuscript in Latin

A tonary is a liturgical book in the Western Christian Church which lists by incipit various items of Gregorian chant according to the Gregorian mode (tonus) of their melodies within the eight-mode system. Tonaries often include Office antiphons, the mode of which determines the recitation formula for the accompanying text (the psalm tone if the antiphon is sung with a psalm, or canticle tone if the antiphon is sung with a canticle), but a tonary may also or instead list responsories or Mass chants not associated with formulaic recitation. Although some tonaries are stand-alone works, they wer

Roman liturgical book from the seventh century

The sanctorale ( ) is one of the two main cycles that, running concurrently, comprise the Liturgical year in Roman Catholicism, defined by the General Roman Calendar, and used by a variety of Christian denominations.

Directorium is a Latin term meaning "guide". In the later Middle Ages, it was specifically applied to liturgical guides used for praying the Divine Office and the Holy Mass.