This volume is part of an antiphonary in three volumes that was
produced in duplicate for the liturgy of Bern’s Collegiate Church
of St. Vincent, founded in 1484/85. The manuscript contains the
entire winter portion of the Temporale, of the Sanctorale and of
the Commune Sanctorum according to the liturgy of the Diocese of
Lausanne. This volume is the duplicate of volume I, today held
in the Catholic parish Saint-Laurent in Estavayer-le-Lac.
Originally the volume was decorated with eight initials, of which
only two remain (p. 71 and p. 429); they are attributed to the
illuminator and copyist Konrad Blochinger, who also added
corrections and annotations of the text to the other volumes of
this group. After the introduction of the Reformation in the year
1528 and the subsequent secularization of the chapter, the entire
group of antiphonaries was sold: four were sold to the city of
Estavayer-le-Lac and were used there for the liturgy of the
Collegiate Church of St. Lorenz; the other two — including this
manuscript — reached Vevey under circumstances that remain
unexplained. They are currently held in the historical museum
there.
