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The antiphoner contained the choir book of chants sung at the Canonical Hours. The monks shared these books which were generally large. Antiphoners were divided according to the days of the week (temporal) and feast days (sanctoral).(8)
Chants that were sung at the Mass were in the gradual.
The antiphoner featured below dates from c. 1290 and was used in Cambrai. This manuscript is now in the Walters Gallery.

Twelfth-century missal, Rievaulx © British Library <click to enlarge>

Thirteenth-century illuminated antiphonary © Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA <click to enlarge>

Thirteenth-century illuminated antiphonary © Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA <click to enlarge>

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