Gelasian Sacramentary

The so-called Gelasian Sacramentary (Latin: Sacramentarium Gelasianum) is a book of Christian liturgy, containing the priest's part in celebrating the Eucharist. It is the second oldest western liturgical book that has survived: only the Verona Sacramentary is older.

The book exists in several manuscripts, the oldest of which is an 8th-century manuscript in the

migration period art motifs comparable to the better known insular art

of Britain and Ireland.

In none of its old manuscripts does the book bear the name of Gelasius but is simply called Liber sacramentorum Romanae ecclesiae ("Book of Sacraments of the Church of Rome"). However, an old tradition linked the book to

Pope Hadrian I

. The spurious ascription to Gelasius gave an added authority to the contents, which are an important document of pre-Gregorian liturgy.

Among several distinct rites current in the West before the 8th century, the two most influential were the

Gallican

in use in most of the rest of Western Europe, save Iberia and the British Isles. By 700 the influence of the Roman sacramentary had modified Gallican usage. This mixture of rites represented in the Gelasian Sacramentary was superseded when Charlemagne asked Pope Hadrian to provide an authentic Roman sacramentary for use throughout the empire. In 785-86, the pope sent the emperor the Sacramentarium Hadrianum, a version of the Gregorian Sacramentary for papal use, which was adapted for the Carolingian empire.

The "Gelasian Sacramentary" comprises the pre-Gregorian three parts, corresponding to the liturgical year, made up of masses for Sundays and feasts, prayers, rites and blessings of the Easter font and of the oil, prayers at dedication of churches, and for the reception of nuns.

References

^ Frank, Hieronymus (1954). "Die Briefe des hl. Bonifatius und das von ihm benutzte Sakramentar". In Raabe, Cuno (ed.). St. Bonifatius Gedenkgabe: Gedenkgabe zum Zwölfhundertsten Todestag (in German). Fulda: Parzeller. pp. 58–88.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2017-06-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

[1] Frank, Hieronymus (1954). "Die Briefe des hl. Bonifatius und das von ihm benutzte Sakramentar". In Raabe, Cuno (ed.). St. Bonifatius Gedenkgabe: Gedenkgabe zum Zwölfhundertsten Todestag (in German). Fulda: Parzeller. pp. 58–88.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2017-06-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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