Research on the antiphoner — problems and perspectives
Hartmut Möller
As recently as 1975, Cyrille Vogel, in his Introduction aux sources du Moyen Age , was obliged to forego a demonstration of the transmission antiphoner, “given complexity research still progress”.[1] Since then, with completion 1979 six-volume Corpus Antiphonalium Officii (= CAO) René-Jean Hesbert, foundations have been laid for all future historical on origins Roman office hours. Twelve selected are edited, first text-incipits their original form, and then each complete text separately; more than this, two concluding volumes Hesbert undertook task classifying 800 by means statistical methods, order thereby facilitate reconstruction an archetype.[2]
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