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{{Short description|Roman liturgical book from the seventh century}}
The '''Verona Sacramentary''' ({{langx|la|Sacramentarium Veronense}}) or '''Leonine Sacramentary''' (''Sacramentarium Leonianum'') is the oldest surviving [[liturgical book]] of the [[Roman rite]]. It is not a [[sacramentary]] in the strict sense, but rather a private collection of ''libelli missarum'' (missal booklets) containing only the prayers for certain Masses and not the [[Bible|scriptures]], the [[Canon of the Mass|canon]] or the [[antiphons]].<ref>{{citation |title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |edition=2nd rev. |editor1=F. L. Cross |editor2=E. A. Livingstone |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |chapter=''Libelli Missarum''}}.</ref> It is named after the sole surviving manuscript, Codex Veronensis LXXXV, which was found in [[Chapter Library of Verona|the chapter library]] of the [[Verona Cathedral]] by [[Giuseppe Bianchini]] and published in his four-volume ''Anastasii bibliothecarii vitae Romanorum pontificum'' in 1735. It is sometimes called "Leonine" because it has been attributed to Pope [[Pope Leo I|Leo I]] (died 461), but while some of the prayers may be his compositions the entire work certainly is not.<ref name=LS>{{citation |title=The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |edition=2nd rev. |editor1=F. L. Cross |editor2=E. A. Livingstone |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |chapter=Leonine Sacramentary}}.</ref>

The Codex Veronensis LXXXV was copied in the early seventh century outside of Rome, but some of its material is clearly derived from Roman pamphlets (''libelli missarum'') and dates to the fifth and sixth centuries. Its contents are arranged according to the civil calendar, but the three [[Units of paper quantity#Quire|quire]]s containing the period 1 January – 14 April are lost. Thus, there is no information in the earliest Roman liturgical book concerning the [[Easter Vigil]].<ref name=LS/>

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==Further reading==

* [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AMBSAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Anastasii%20bibliothecarii%20vitae%20Romanorum%20Pontificum&pg=PR12#v=onepage&q&f=false Anastasii Bibliothecarii De Vitis Romanorum Pontificum vol. 4, p.xii] - The first printed edition.

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*{{cite thesis |first=David |last=Hope |title=The Leonine Sacramentary: A Re-assessment of its Nature and Purpose |type=PhD diss. |institution=University of Oxford |year=1965}}
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* Facsimile: Sacramentarium Leonianum: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt (ADEVA), Graz 1960. Complete edition for studies of the liturgical manuscript from the Chapter Library in Verona. Reproduction in original size 175 x 240&nbsp;mm. Size of the facsimile edition including margin 230 x 330&nbsp;mm. Binding: half leather. Introduction (german): F. Sauer, Graz. 286 pp; CODICES SELECTI, Vol. I

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