ABSTRACT
The Penpont Antiphoner is the first of two fourteenth-century sources with notation known to have been used in Wales, both of which broadly follow the Use of Sarum. It was purchased by the National Library of Wales at Sothebys in 1969, and acquired its name following the discovery that it was brought to sale by a member of the Williams family of Penpont, near Brecon. Owain Edwards published an excellent survey of the Penpont Antiphoner in 1990: this revealed much about both the content and textual and musical characteristics of the book, and the reader is directed to his study for fuller contextual discussion. Recent work by Daniel Huws on the marginalia has established a great deal about the later provenance of the manuscript, and confirmed its association with Talgarth, where, the parish church was dedicated to the Welsh St Wenna.
