Antiphonarium (MS A.ö.II.29, Ilmajoen antifonarium)

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The book appears to be a copy of a medieval Dominican antiphonary that has been revised for secular usage; this is suggested by some of the rubrics, e.g. on fols. 42v and 43r, where reference is made to "frateres uel pueri", "pueri uel fratres" or simply "fraters pueri", suggesting that an original text and later emendations to it have been copied without differentiation. It seems that work on the copy has lasted some time, and several scribes have taken part, some adding text after the original plan for the book (as witnessed by the unexecuted highest grade initials, ignored by some scribes) had been abandoned. Eventually the book was left unfinished, but not before some Lutheran corrections had been made in its text (e.g. fol. 94r).