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Moreover, the widespread liturgical experimentation encouraged by Vatican II seriously undermined a profitable "black book" trade in breviaries, missals and hymnals.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should guess that Porteous was the sign used by some medieval writer of mass-books and breviaries.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Most priests will have observed that missals and breviaries differ with regard to the rite of the Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, some giving it as a double, others as a semi-double.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various

It is divided into nine lessons and served for the Franciscan breviaries up to the time when St. Bonaventura made his Legenda Minor.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Houghton, Louise Seymour

As it was, Figtree Court was a pleasant hermitage in its way, and for breviaries and Books of Hours, I am ashamed to say the young barrister substituted Paul de Kock and Dumas, fils.

From Lady Audley's Secret by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)