**SUCCINCTORIO** (subcinctorum, subcingulum, perizoma; balteus, praecinctorum, semicinctium). — Ornament of the Pope at Solemn Mass. It is a strip of cloth similar to the maniple, folded in the middle, of the same color as the chasuble, adorned on one side with a gold lamb and on the other with a gold cross; it is attached to the left side of the cincture.
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At Rome the s. was not used before the 11th century. Bruno of Segni (d. 1123) and Sicard of Cremona (d. 1215) are among the first to mention II. It is not mentioned in the early *Ordines Romani* nor by writers of the 8th–10th centuries (Amalarius, Rabanus, Strabo, Pseudo-Alcuin). However, it was already in use at Ravenna in the 7th–8th century; it was later called: *balteus* (in the *Sacramentary of Ratold of Corbie*), *praecinctorium* (in the so-called Illyrian Mass), *semicinctorium* (in southern Italy). It is proper to bishops (*Ordo XIV*, 48–53) and granted as a privilege to other prelates; at Milan it was also worn by the cardinal-priests of the metropolitan chapter. The *Caeremoniale Episcoporum Romanum* no longer mentions it.