antiphonale, vatican city, ms cappella sistina 4, produced for clement vii, ca. 1530

Antiphonale,Vatican City, MS Cappella Sistina 4, produced for Clement VII,ca. 1530

First antiphon for Vespers I of Christmas:

Rex pacificus magnificatus est

(“Highly esteemed is theKing of Peace”)

Adelaide Antiphonale(Italy, 13th cent.)

Second antiphon for Vespers I of Christmas:

Magnificatus est rex pacificus

(“Highly esteemed is the King ofPeace”)

Cistercian Graduale from Lodi (Italy)

(13th cent.), fol. 21r-21v. Introit for Christmas Day

Graduale from York (England)(15th cent.), fol. 6v. Gradual for Third Mass of Christmas

Praemonstratensian Graduale

from near Laon (France)

(12th cent.), page 34.

Gradual and Alleluia for Christmas Day

Viderunt omnes V. Notum“All the ends of the earth”

Graduale fromKlosterneuburg(Bavaria, 12th cent.)

Mass Propers forthe First Sunday in Lent,

including the gradual

Angelis suis mandavit

(“By his angels he ordered”)

Worcester Antiphonale(13th cent.), fol. 135v-136r. Excerpt of Prose “Inviolata”

Poissy Antiphonale (French, Dominican)(ca. 1335) fol. 395v-396r. Marian anthems & “Te Deum”