Anglican Gradual and Sacramentary

David Allen White is making the Anglican Gradual and Sacramentaryavailable, at no cost, to all folks who are interested in the work. We will let David Allen describe the work in his on words:

"The Anglican Gradual and Sacramentary is something like the Anglican Missal, in that it provides the traditional anthems (sometimes called the minor propers) and special prayers and other texts, but it is designed to be used with the 1979 Prayer Book, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, and the Book of Occasional Services, and it provides not only traditional language but contemporary English and Spanish.

"Because of its size (it is 22 volumes and takes as much shelf space as the Encyclopedia Americana) is was not considered commercially marketable. One other criticism of The Anglican Gradual and Sacramentary is that, by being the work of a single individual, it is more than slightly idiosyncratic. It represents what I know and have seen, and although I think my scholarship has been extensive, there will be others who will find parts of it peculiar.

"I have spent the last 9 years transcribing it into a computer. It is now complete and I have made one printed copy for the Library of Congress and I will make a limited number of others." David Allen White

• Propers for every day in the Church Year 
• Propers for every saint's day and fixed holy day 
• The Common of Saints. 
• Episcopal and pastoral services 
• Votives and special occasions 
• Appendices tracing the history and usage of every anthem (more than 2000) with the original Latin (or in some cases Greek) text. Indexes of Scripture readings 
• An index of propers. 

As David Allen White makes the files available we will be posting them here on this web site. The files will be made available in Word Perfect 8 format, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, and others if there are enough requests. 

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We may have partially solved the problem of the Greek fonts with accents and breathing marks. We are using a program called "Son of WinGreek which is a great little shareware program that turns any word processor into a Greek Word processor. See the link below. We are leaving all Word Perfect as David Allen White created them, but we are modifying the MS Word files to show the Greek correctly. You will need the Greek Old Face font. Greek Old Face.ttf and "Son of WinGreek" shareware program at:  http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404/SoWG.html

****** MS Word Viewer  may be found on the download page. Adobe Acrobat viewer may be found on the Adobe website.

CD's with all the files are available. The CD's are $12.00 US. There is no shipping charge in the US or Canada. Outside the US we ask to you add $2.00 to pay for the extra postage. We will not be making money off of the CD's. The fee is to cover our expenses for blank media, packaging, postage, and other expenses. We will have to take each CD sent overseas to the post office to declare it for customs and to seal it in front of a postal employee. The person recieving the item will be responsible for any duties and taxes. The button below is for Pay Pal. If you prefer you may send me the order direct. Be sure to include your name and address along with your money order in US funds. I will confirm all orders that have an email address. Send your order to:

Sibyl Smirl

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Disclaimer

David Allen White has put a huge amount of work into this project. He is being extremely generous in allowing us to have the work at no cost. You may copy these file, put them on a CD or whatever medium you desire. You may not sell or use the files to make money. David Allen White is not responsible for this site, its upkeep or any errors. If you discover any errors on the site contact the web master. 

Thank You

We want to thank everyone who has and is assisting in this project including those who have donated software, time, and advice.

Web site © 1999, 2009 by The Most Rev. Glenn E. Hammett