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portiforium|pɔətɪˈfɔərɪəm| Pl. portiforia. [a. med.L. portiforium portable breviary.] = portas 1, portuary.
1880,1884[see portuary]. 1916H. M. Bannister in C. H. Turner Early Worcester MSS. p. lx, The traditional title Portiforium S. Oswaldi..is clearly wrong, as that Saint's name appears by the first hand in its kalendar; it might justly be called the Portiforium S. Wulfstani. 1929Jrnl. Theol. Stud. XXX. 174 In the library of Corpus Christi College..is preserved a book..known until recently as the Portiforium (or Breviarium) Oswaldi. Ibid. 175 The book..is a stout vellum volume... It is in fact almost a Breviary, or Portiforium. 1931A. Esdaile Student's Man. Bibliogr. vi. 200 On small breviaries, intended to be carried about and hence named ‘portiforia’, the chemise was at the head. 1956In Great Tradition (Benedictines of Stanbrook) ix. 176 She [sc. Dame Laurentia McLachlan] had contributed..an article on the so-called Portiforium Oswaldi, an eleventh-century volume. 1974Bodl. Libr. Rec. Dec. Dr. Emden's Register provides the information that John Neele, master of Holy Trinity College, Arundel, from 1484 until his death in 1498, bequeathed all his books at Arundel, with the exception of his bible and portiforium, to Magdalen College. |