_Service-books._--The Eucharistie service was contained in the volume called the Missal (_q.v_.), as the ordinary choir offices were contained in the volume known as the Breviary (_q.v_.). But besides these two volumes there were a large number of other service-books. Mr W. Maskell has enumerated and described ninety-one such volumes employed by the Western Church only. It must be understood, however, that many of these ninety-one names are synonyms (_Mon. Rit. Eccles. Anglic_. 1882, vol. i. p. ccxxx.). The list might be increased, but it will be possible here only to name and briefly describe a few of the more important of them. (1) The _Agenda_ is the same as the Manual, for which see below. (2) The _Antiphonary_ contained the antiphons or anthems, sung at the canonical hours, and certain other minor parts of the service. (3) The _Benedictional_ contained those triple episcopal benedictions previously described as used on Sundays and on the chief festivals throughout the year. (4) The _Collectarium_ contained the collects for the season, together with a few other parts of the day offices. It was an inchoate breviary. (5) The _Epistolarium_ contained the epistles, and the _Evangelistarium_ the gospels for the year. (7) The _Gradual_ contained the introit, gradual, sequences, and the other portions of the communion service which were sung by the choir at nigh mass. (8) The _Legenda_ contained the lections which were read at matins and at other times, and may be taken as a generic term to include the _Homiliarium, Passional_ and other volumes. (9) The _Manual_ was the name usually employed in England to denote the _Ritual_, which contained the baptismal, matrimonial and other offices which might be performed by the parish priest. (10) The _Pontifical_ contained the orders of consecration, ordination, and such other rites as could, ordinarily, only be performed by a bishop. To these we must add a book which was not strictly a church office book, but a handy book for the use of the laity, and which was in very popular use and often very highly embellished from the 14th to the 16th century, the _Book of Hours_, or _Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis_, also known as the _Prymer_ or _Primer_. It contained portions of the canonical hours, litanies, the penitential Psalms, and other devotions of a miscellaneous and private character. Detailed information about all these and other books is to be found in C. Wordsworth and H. Littlehales', _The Old Service Books of the English Church_.