A discourse concerning liturgies

Add hereto, that amongst the Latins in those Ages, when the framing and counterfeiting of Liturgies was in fashion, almost every part of them went under the name of Cantus, not the Prayers excepted. So ^qSin. Tolet. 4. can. 12. all the several Offices and Prayers by name, pass under the notion of Singing. The Law of Charles the Great, imposing the Gregorian Office upon the Churches in his Dominions, is in these terms, Ut secundum ordinem & morem Ecclesiae Romanae fiat cantatus, Capit. l. 6. c. 225. So when Durandus would tell us what Liturgies they had in the primitive Church, all is comprised under Cantare; In primitiva tamen Ecclesia diversi diversa quisque ⟨p. 171⟩pro suo veil cantabant, Rational. l. 5. c. 2. p. 139. In the primitive Church, several Men sung several things, according as every one would. And Belethus after him, in primitiva Ecclesia diversi diversa cantabant, quisque pro suo libitu. Expl. diver. Offic. cap. 19.

Add hereto, that amongst the Latines in those Ages, when the framing and counterfeiting of Liturgies was in fashion, almost every part of them went under the name of Cantus, not the Prayers excepted. So ^qSyn. Tolet. 4. can. 12. all the several Offices and Prayers by name, pass under the notion of Singing. The Law of Charles the Great, imposing the Gregorian Office upon the Churches in his Dominions, is in these terms, Ʋt secundum ordinem & morem Ecclesiae Romanae fiat cantatus, Capit. l. 6. c. 225. So when Durandus would tell us what Liturgies they had in the primitive Church, all is comprised under Cantare; In primitiva tamen Ecclesia diversi diversa quisque ⟨p. 171⟩pro suo velle cantabant, Rational. l. 5. c. 2. p. 139. In the primitive Church, several Men sung several things, according as every one would. And Belethus after him, in primitiva Ecclesia diversi diversa cantabant, quisque pro suo libitu. Expl. diver. Offic. cap. 19.

1. qComponuntur missae, sive preces, vel orationes, sive commendationes, sive manûs impositiones, ex quibus si nulla decantentur in Ecclesia, vacant omnia officia ecclesiastica, Conc. Tolet. 4. c. 12.