antiphonary
(ænˈtɪfənərɪ)
[ad. med.L. antiphōnāri-um, f. antiphōna: see antiphon and -ary. The earlier word was antiphoner.]
A book containing a set or collection of antiphons.
| [1295 Visit. Dean Radulphus in Dugdale Hist. St. Paul's (1668) 217 Antiphonarium Albrici est in duobus Voluminibus.] 1681 Blount Glossogr., Antiphonary, a book containing the antiphons and versicles sung by churchmen in the quire. a 1789 Burney Hist. Mus. (ed. 2) III. i. 9 This year all antiphonaries..were called in and destroyed. 1859 Jephson Brittany viii. 105 An ugly reading-desk, with a great dogs-eared antiphonary lying open upon it. 1879 Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 615 This celebrated Antiphonary [of St. Gregory] was all but unanimously accepted. |