[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. 615/2. This celebrated Antiphonary [of St. Gregory] was all but unanimously accepted as the norm.
