Antiphonal of Cividale

The antiphonal consists of the following main sections: temporale from the 1^st Advent Sunday to the Epiphany octave (f. 1r); sanctorale with the proper of Saints from St. Fabian and St. Sebastian (January 20^th) to the Announcement (March 25^th) (f. 69r); temporale from the Septuagesima Sunday to Tuesday in diebus rogationum (f. 90r); common of a martyr for the Easter time (f. 152r); proper sanctorale from St. George (April 23^rd/24^th) to Saints Alexander Eventius and Theodolus (May 3^rd) (f. 154r). The codex comes from the local collegiate church of Cividale del Friuli, and the concordances with other codices induce to think that it was written for the same institution. The collected material does not cover the whole liturgical year and the current conditions of the manuscript evidence serious mutilations suffered in the course of time. Beyond the failing parts, the extremely precarious condition of the codex ending part is to be reported as well: only little more than the half of the original manuscript is supposably survived.