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On 1 February 2014, at the Diocesan Museum “Mons. Aurelio Sorrentino” of Reggio Calabria, was held the meeting ” Discovering the Historical Archives of the diocese: two ancient liturgical books, an Antifonary and a Psaltery” organized by the Touring Club Italia,
The volumes, found in a cabinet of the Archive together with other material in precarious conservation conditions, have been subjected to restoration financed by Baron Arturo Nesci di Sant’ Agata and carried out by the firm of restoration “Scripta Manent” of Reggio Calabria.
The Antifonary is acephalus, the title can be derived from the explicit Antiphonarium Romanum, iuxta ordinem novi Breviarii integrum & completum continens omnia quae communiter cantantur in Ecclesia: Feliciter explicit. The format is folio, the collation includes forty quaternions and a duerno. In the regestum you will find the year of printing, (1616), the place, (Venice) and the publisher apud Cieras. Bonifacio Ciera was an active Venetian printer until 1605. His successors, his son Pietro and his nephew Bonifacio, continued their activity throughout the seventeenth century, producing above all liturgical books. The brand is Europe: a woman sitting on a bull that crosses the sea in a figured frame,. The text, pina page, is a square musical notation arranged on tetragrams consisting of four red lines. There are the musical keys of do (c) and do (f), the custos at the end of the line is made up of a rhombus accompanied by a thinly oblique right-handed line. It features contemporary cartridge in the upper outer corner.
The recent restoration of the two volumes,”said Maria Pia Mazzitelli, director of the Diocesan Historical Archive,” contributes to enriching and embellishing the documentary patrimony of the Archive. It is an important finding that will contribute to the study and research of those who, assiduously, devote themselves to the historical sciences, with particular interest in the liturgy and history of the Church in general.