Plantin’s Antiphonarium Romanum (Antwerp, 1571–3) : Creating a Chant Book during the Catholic Reformation

As the first printed chant book to align with the reformed Roman Rite, the Antiphonarium Romanum (Antwerp: Plantin, 1571–73) marked a turning point in the creation of liturgical editions. Documents from the Plantin-Moretus Archief provide unprecedented information concerning the antiphoner’s commission, revision, and production. Letters from printer Christopher Plantin to his patrons, Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle and Bishop Gilbert d’Oignies, reveal a power struggle over the plainchant: whether to use Granvelle’s Roman exemplar, or d’Oignies’s Low Countries manuscript. Plantin finall... Mehr ...