Middle English Dictionary Entry
antiphonē̆r(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | antiphonē̆r(e n. Also antiphonary, antifener(e, antifonar, antefenar, -phonere, anfenere, amphanere. |
| Etymology | OF antifon(i)er, antifen(i)er, & ML antiphōnārium. ME anfenere , mostly attested in glossaries, is prob. a fast form of antifenere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A book containing a collection of antiphones [cp. anteme] and, it seems, also other sacred songs; ~ noted, an antiphoner with musical notation.
Associated quotations
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pri.(Manly-Rickert)B.1709 : He 'Alma redemptoris' herde synge, As children lerned hir Antiphoner [rime: ner].
- (c1411) Acc.Met.Col.in Archaeol.J.663 : Item, solut Johanni Knyf, Capellano, pro 18 quaternis scribendis unius antefenar, 12 s.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)648/30 : Hoc antiphonarium: anfenare.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.19/13 : An Antiphonere, the whiche was necessarie to them that schulde synge ynne the chirche.
- (1429) Will Braybroke in Ess.AST 5301 : My best antiphoner noted, also my beste grayel.
- (1429) Will Braybroke in Ess.AST 5302 : I geue and assigne to the saide cherche of Horsyndon an Antiphoner after ye newe ordinal noted.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.FCLife (Corp-C 296)194 : Antifeners, graielis, & alle oþere bokis.
- (1432) Rec.St.Mary at Hill27 : ij masse bokes and a pistelarie..ij grete antyphaners..ij legendes & a manwell & a Ordynall..iiij grayels & iij sawters & iiij processionares & a marteloge.
- 1618(1440) Invent.Cumberworth in Peacock EChurch Furniture [OD col.]182 : A portetife Missall of Salisbery vse, a grayll, a anfenere.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)12 : Antyfenere [vrr. anphenere, antephonere]: Antiphonarius [vr. antiphanarium].
- (1447) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 1156 : iij Antiphones, the first begynnyng on the seconde folio 'Rex Creator', the ijde in the seconde folio begynnyng 'Si tu es ipse'.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15145 : The best Antyphoner noted, with the Sawter, Chapiter, Ympnes and Orysons; and begynneth with the wordes 'Dominica prima'..the furst lettre D freshly lympned.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15147 : Item, one old Antiphonary noted without chapiters, orysons, or lessons, begynnyng with 'Ecce dies'.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15148 : A new grete Antyphonere for the quere.
- (1458) Will York in Sur.Soc.30227 : The lesce Antiphoner.
- (1466) in Cox Churches Derb.85 : ij missals or masbokes, one gospelar, viij Antiphonars, ij manuelles.
- (1472-74) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31531 : Payed..for mendyng of an Antyfonar, xij d.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)3b : Antiphonare [vr. Anfenere]: Antiphonarium.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)755/12 : Hoc antifonarium: a amphanere.