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Breviarium Romanum. 1
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work 'Portae Lucis' (Sha'are Orah) is a famous 13th-century kabbalistic text by Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, originally written in Hebrew. It was translated into Latin by Paulus Ricius in 1516. The book provided for verification is a 1710 edition of this Latin translation. Extensive searches of scholarly catalogs and databases have yielded no evidence of an English translation of this specific Latin text. While the original Hebrew work has been translated into English (e.g., by Avi Weinstein), the Latin translation by Ricius remains untranslated.
Verified Apr 1, 2026 via local catalogs, open library, google books, internet archive, openalex, loc, ustc · methodology
Step into the heart of the Counter-Reformation with the Roman Breviary, the monumental text that unified the spiritual voice of the Catholic Church. Discover how a single, unchangeable code of prayer was forged to bridge the gap between the divine and the everyday, ending centuries of liturgical chaos.