antiphonary
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antiphonaries
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Etymology
Origin of antiphonary
1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin antiphōnārium; learned borrowing replacing earlier versions, which had undergone changes: Middle English anfenere, antefenar, antiphoner ( e ), Old English antefnere (compare Middle Dutch antiffenaer, Middle Low German antifenēr, Old High German antiphenere ) < Medieval Latin See antiphon, -ary
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He sat all day over his antiphonary, in the little carrel off the cloister, and as he worked his mind toiled like a mill.
From The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson
He is said to dwell mainly upon the proper manner of performing the antiphonary and the graduale.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
In the Latin Church it was not practised until more than two centuries later, when it was introduced by Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who compiled an antiphonary, or collection of words suitable for antiphonal singing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
There are also said to be a psalter and antiphonary of the fourteenth century, and a Bull of Urban V. relating to the Crusades of 1365.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
Kindling thought and imagination at once, the prospect draws from him cries of joy, of a kind of religious joy, as in some new "canticle of the creatures," some new hymnal, or antiphonary.
From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater
Altars, statues, pictures, antiphonaries, missals, graduals—all underwent a common fate.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
Another bishop, R. de Maidstone, although "vir magnae literaturae, et in theologia nominatissimus," only seems to have given the church two antiphonaries, some psalters, and a Legenda.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
In the Abbey library, among a waste of antiphonaries and homilies and monkish chronicles, were to be found texts of Livy and Lucretius and the letters of Cicero.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
We walk through the fretted cloisters that once echoed with the tread of sandalled monks and saw them illuminating and copying wonderful missals, antiphonaries, and other manuscripts which we prize so highly now.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
Business had invaded the cloisters where, in place of antiphonaries, heavy ledgers reposed on reading-desks.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
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