Antiphoners

The only two English antiphoners I'm aware of are the Monastic Diurnal Noted, which sadly does not have the Psalms in it, necessitating book-juggling, and the Mundelein Psalter, which is sadly not really an antiphoner at all. ❋ Bls (2008)

He collected and wrote all the necessary materials for four antiphoners, with their musical notes, himself; except what the brothers of the monastery transcribed for him. ❋ Frederick Somner Merryweather (N/A)

But such books existed also as antiphoners with choir parts only and sacramentaries with the priest's part only, and the usual modern practice is to call the composite books by the descriptive name of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Service-books should be revised: "that all mass-books, antiphoners, portuisses, in the Church of England should be newly examined, corrected, and reformed;" and Convocation ordered that the The first ❋ Unknown (1900)

It was especially common in the case of the great antiphoners and other huge service-books which stood on the lecterns in Italian churches. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Item, 8 grailes, 7 antiphoners of parchment and bound ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

Nor was it till after the enterprising activity of Poggio had succeeded in securing a few precious remains of classical antiquity, [211] that the wretched indolence of the monastic life began to be diverted from a constant meditation upon "antiphoners, grailes, and psalters," [212] towards subjects of a more generally interesting nature. ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

"And here," said the Captain's yoke-fellow, Everett, "are proper priest's trappings -- antiphoners, and missals, and copes, I warrant you -- ay, and proper pictures, too, for Papists to mutter and bow over." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

William Allom for two antiphoners, one masse book and hymnal and processioners, £6 13_s. _ 4_d. _ " ❋ Robert Forsyth Scott (1891)

Bracciolini_.] [Footnote 212: When Queen Elizabeth deputed a set of commissioners to examine into the superstitious books belonging to All-Souls library, there was returned, in the list of these superstitious works, "eight grailes, seven antiphoners of parchment and bound." ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)