Antiphonale missarum sextuplex

The publication was made by the Solem monk-researcher René Esber in 1935. All sources were compiled in the centers of the Carolingian spiritual culture in the north-west of the Frankish state (the territory of present-day northern France and Belgium ) at the end of the 8th and 9th centuries; contain only lyrics, no musical notation .

The words “antiphonary of the mass” in the most ancient liturgical tradition denoted a singing book, which later received the name Graduala . The book, now known simply as the anti-flashlight , in the same tradition was called the “anti- flashlight of office ” (antiphonalium officii).

Six graduates in the Esber anthology are published as synchronized texts in six columns (hence sextuplex):

B (Blandiniensis); Bruxelles, Bibl. Royale lat.10127-44; graduation from Mont-Blanda (end of the 8th century) ^[1] ;
C (Compendiensis); Paris, Bibl. nationale, lat.17436; graduate from abbey of sv. Cornelia in Compiegne (last quarter of the 9th century);
K (Corbiensis); Paris, Bibl. nationale, lat.12050; graduated from Corby (after 853);
M (Modoetiensis); Monza, Bibl. Capitolare e Tesoro Ms 88 (7 B 13); the cantatorium ^[2] of Monza (of North French origin; second third of the ninth century);
R (Rhenaugensis); Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rheinau 30; graduate from Reinau (about 800);
S (Silvanectensis); Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, 111; graduate from Senlis (end of the ninth century).

• Dom Renè-Jean Hesbert , Antiphonale Missarum Sextuplex. Bruxelles, Paris, 1935.
• Bischoff, Bernhard . Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1998 (Bd.1), 2004 (Bd.2), 2005 (Bd.3).

• Corpus antiphonalium officii

• Electronic facsimile of graduation from Mont-Blandin (B)
• Electronic facsimile of Graduale from Compiegne (C)
• Electronic facsimile of graduated from Corby (K)
• Electronic facsimile graduated from Senlis (S)
• Database (including incipits of chorals, cataloged in AMS) Cantus planus Regensburg