Eccl. (now only Hist.) Also 5 tropere, tropoure, tropure, 8 tropar. [OE. tropere, ad. med.L. troperium (see TROPARY); cf. OF. tropier, troper (12th c. in Godef.).] A book containing tropes (TROPE 5); also, a book containing sequences; a sequencer.

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a. 1073.  Charter Bp. Leofric, in Thorpe, Charters, 430. II. fulle sangbec … & I. tropere & I. salteras.

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a. 1400–50.  Alexander, 1568. With tablis & t[r]opoures.

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c. 1400.  Laud Troy Bk., 9369. The Bible ne no Missale,… The Grael ne the Tropere.

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c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 755/3. Hoc troparium, tropere.

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a. 1746.  Lewis, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., II. 169. A Tropery, or book of Sequences. It was called in English a T[r]oper.

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1894.  W. H. Frere, Winchester Troper, p. vi. The Tropers practically represent the sum total of musical advance between the ninth and the twelfth century.

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