Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bound collection of antiphons, especially of the responsive choral parts of the Divine Office.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book of antiphons.
- Antiphonal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
antiphonal . - adjective Pertaining to an
antiphon orantiphony .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony
- noun bound collection of antiphons
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Examples
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The sanctoral of the antiphonary is the oldest document of that kind in the Coptic literature.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement] 1840-1916 1913
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The musical compilation known as the antiphonary is therefore not due to Gregory II, nor is it from him that it has become known as the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Missale Mixtum/Liturgia Mozarabica, Migne's P.L. A couple of stories came the NLM's way pertaining to the Mozarabic liturgy, related to an 11th century Mozarabic antiphonary which is completely in tact -- and, reportedly, the only such example in existence.
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This very brief Vespers is already found in the Compiègne antiphonary, a manuscript of the ninth century; but inasmuch as an analogous rite is also found in the Ambrosian Easter vigil, it is probably much older.
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All of the antiphonaries of the Roman Rite, beginning with the oldest (the antiphonary of Compiègne, written about 870 A.D., and the Codex Hartker, written about the year 1000) attest with almost complete uniformity to the same repertoire of antiphons and responsories which are found in the Breviary of St. Pius V.
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Photo: A contemporary Cistercian monk reads a hand-illuminated antiphonary.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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The large capital initial "A" of the word "Angelus", in which is inscribed a representation of the three Marys discovering the empty tomb of Christ, was cut out of the third sheet of an antiphonary composed for the Florentine convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli in 1396
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Such is the case of an antiphonary for the Divine Office that is currently housed in the Chapter Library of Toledo Cathedral ms.
Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008
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Such is the case of an antiphonary for the Divine Office that is currently housed in the Chapter Library of Toledo Cathedral ms.
Another early music site bls 2008
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Here is the text in English and Latin from the Dominican antiphonary.
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004 John 2003
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