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The Dominican Antiphoner from the Badija Franciscan Monastery near Korčula: The Question of Provenance

A set of four large liturgical chant books which together form a complete antiphoner belong to the group of codices transported from the Badija Franciscan Monastery near Korčula to the Franciscan Monastery of the Little Brethren in Dubrovnik after World War II. Even at first sight of the contents of these books one can identify their Dominican provenance, in the specific feasts honouring the Dominican saints together with some other characteristics typical for the Dominican liturgy of the Hours. There is no direct evidence for dating, but palaeographical analysis puts its origins at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century. The question of the provenance of the antiphoner is both delicate and problematic. As it contains Dominican liturgy, the book must have originated from a monastery other than the Franciscan one on the island of Badija. Taking into account the turbulent history of Dominicans and Franciscans and their monasteries in medieval Dalmatia (due to the Ottoman-Turkish invasions) and by analysing some later additions found in the antiphoner, arguments will be put forward for the view that the antiphoner was being used as early as the 15th century in one of the Dominican monasteries within the sphere of the influence of the free Republic of Dubrovnik.

antiphoner; Gregorian chant; Dominicans; Dubrovnik Republic; Badija; Franciscan monastery

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