passionarius

passionarius [ML] 1 (liber ~ius or ellipt) passional, book that contains accounts of saints’ sufferings, martyrology. libri ~ii leguntur in ipsis diebus martyrum Beleth RDO 62. 69; 14‥ ~ii iij in tribus voluminibus Cart. Reading F 122; hic passionerius, a passyonar WW. 2 (as sb n.) passional (usu. arranged according to the calendar of saints’ days); b (w. gen.). 1245 ~ium quod dicitur Pilosum incipiens in expulsione Symonis Magi et terminatur in ix milibus virginum (Stat. S. Paul.) Arch. L 497; 1368 legenda sanctorum que dicitur ~ium Invent. Norw. 94; 1396 ~ium mensis Januarii (Catal. Librorum) Meaux III lxxxv; hoc passionari[um], A. a passionari WW.  b liber in quo continetur ~ium Sanctorum incipiens a sancto Apollinare et finiens in passione sanctorum martyrum Simplicii ‥ et Beatricis Elmh. Cant. 99; ~ium Theodosii presbiteri EpAcOx 182; p1440 ~ium sanctorum (Catal. Librorum) JRL Bull. XVI 479. 3 (med) book about diseases suffered. habet ‥ emorroidas narium secundum Galienum in ~io Ric. Med. Anat. 227; habetur in ~io quod emera non pertransit quartum diem nisi imperitia medici Gilb. I 3v. 2; de simplicibus medicinis ‥ de ingenio sanitatis, ‥ ~ium, antidotarium W. Burley Vit. Phil. 390.