Antiph’onary

(Lat. antiphon a’rium; Ger. Antiphonar’; Fr. antiphon a ire; It, antifona’rio.) Properly, a collection of antiphons, but extended to include the responsories, etc., sung at ecclesiastical celebrations.—The original collections embraced all the antihonal songs both in the ma and the Paces of the Latin Church; but now, by long-established custom, a separate book called the Gradual contains the liturgical antiphons (those proper to the ma ); whereas the responsories of the office, formerly relegated to the Responsorial, now form the Antiphonary, together with the antiphons proper (i.e. the snripioes a ociated with the psalms of the office). (Also Antiph’ ‘onal, Antip®’oner.)