This Antiphonary contains songs for saints’ days, the Office of
the Dead, and an Office for Anthony of Padua. It was written and
illuminated in northern Italy (Padua or Bologna) and is dateable to
the first decade of the 14th century. The manuscript was used in
the Franciscan cloister of St. Francis in Locarno, which received
it together with the Gradual and the Antiphonaries de tempore
Codice II and II Codice III on the occasion of the re-dedication of
the church in 1316. The front pastedown had a sheet of paper
affixed to it, detached during the most recent restoration, on
which both sides contained an annotated plan for a "rivellino", a
type of bulwark normally found in fortifications.
