Menologium

In particular, it is used for ancient Roman farmers' almanacs (menologia rustica); for the untitled Old English poem on the Julian calendar that appears in a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; for the liturgical books (also known as the menaia) used by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches following the Byzantine Rite that list the propers for fixed dates, typically in twelve volumes covering a month each and largely concerned with saints; for hagiographies (also known as synaxaria) and liturgical calendars written as part of this tradition; and for equivalents of these works among Roman Catholic religious orders for organized but private commemoration of their notable members.

[11] The Old English poem has also been edited to digital facsimiles of its manuscript folios, with annotations and a modern translation: Foys, Martin et al.

Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019-) Menaia, also known as menologia, are the office books of the Orthodox Church covering the propers assigned to fixed dates in the calendar.

These lives of the saints are inserted between the 6th and 7th odes of the canon in similar fashion to the interpolation of the day's Martyrologium into the choral recitation of Prime in Roman Catholicism.

They correspond with Roman Catholic Martyrologies, although the usual Orthodox style is to provide fewer but fuller entries on the saints' lives.

Delehaye found that Symeon and other hagiographers of his era were largely conservative while compiling their works from earlier synaxaria but sparsely added additional materials from other—now uncertain—sources.

[13] In the early modern period, some Roman Catholic religious orders began to compile the names and eulogies of their notable members.

[4] The Menologium Franciscanum ("Menologium of the Franciscans") published by Fortunatus Hüber in 1691 was similarly intended for such open recitation but noted that the concluding formula of the Roman Matyrology ("Et alibi aliorum...") should be replaced as the ferialis terminatio cuiuscumque diei with the three verses of Revelation beginning "Post hæc vidi turbam magnam..."[16][17]