Des info du Keller Book

SECTION I : 1900-1911 (pre Pius X's reform)
a) Parent texts

ca. 540 - Monastic Psalter
(St. Benedict - still used by some)

ca. 1346 - The Bridgettine Office of Our Lady (updated and translated, but [/size] still used by some Bridgettine Nuns)

1535 - The Quiñonez (Breviary of the Holy Cross) Psalter.

1842 - Maurinum (Hungarian Benedictine Congregation of St. Maur) pre-1911 - Roman Rite (in use officially since the reform of the Council of Trent)

b) some short breviary texts (original edition dates) - (to come)

c) Four Psalter Schemas over 500 years -- and their influence on today's office.

d) The length of the pre-1911 office compared with the Pius X reform of 1911 (calculated by the number of psalm verses in each day's office).

SECTION II : 1911 - 1970

a) Parent texts

1911 - Pius X Psalter

1957 - Breviarium Ambrosianum (Ambrosian Rite)

b) some short breviary texts: (original edition dates)

1911 - The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

1928 - Laienbrevier (Maria Laach)

1933 - Volksbrevier, (Fleischmann)

1935 - Bruederoffizium, (St. Ottilien)

1941 - A Short Breviary (St. John's Abbey)

1941 - Oratio Vespertina (Vilma G. Little), Stanbrook Abbey Press.

1948 - Officium Divinum Parvum, (Fleischmann) [English, 1959]

1950 - Klein Brevier - The Little Breviary ( Stallaert) [English, 1957]

1951 - Livre d'Heures - Book of Hours (En Calcat) [English - 1955/6]

1955 - The Anglican Breviary (Frank Gavin Liturgical Foundation) (uses Pius X Psalter distribution), [reprinted 1998]

1959 - L'Office de la sainte Vierge - Office of Our Lady (En Calcat) [English -1962]

1963 - Morning Praise and Evensong (Storey)