antiphonals

35Among southern German female Dominican houses, the number of Psalters is surpassed by graduals and antiphonals from the beginning of the fourteenth century. 92 These texts represent 27.6 percent of the manuscripts in the larger survey (Table 4) and almost half, 48.8 percent of the surviving manuscripts from the six core houses (Table 3).

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There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

Whereas the graduals sometimes have fairly extensive illumination cycles in their initials, the initials in the antiphonals are merely decorated.

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However, many of the antiphonals belonging to male Dominican houses were broken up into two volumes for winter and summer usage. 106 Occasionally, houses had diurnals, manuscripts containing antiphonal materials for the daytime offices but excluding compline and matins.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Hence, some Psalters, graduals, and processionals survive today as separate manuscripts, whereas other examples are bound with hymnals, antiphonals, and books of rites, respectively.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

They include graduals, antiphonals, diurnals, collectars, and psalters. 77 Some of these texts are decorated with elaborate pictorial elements and others are purely utilitarian.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Diurnals tend to be on a smaller scale than antiphonals, suggesting that the two night offices involved a lot of singing by the choir.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

None of the antiphonals include a calendar or the litany of saints. 104 "Like the gradual, antiphonaries are usually large manuscripts for easy visibility by the members of the choir, and are often in two to six volumes."

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Two antiphonals from Adelhausen are 53 cm x 37.5 cm and 49 cm x 16.5 cm. 107 We gain a sense of their weight and cumbersomeness in the life of Beli of Liebenberg.

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