The dual Radon - Nikodym property for finitely generated Banach C(K)-Modules

We extend the well-known criterion of Lotz for the dual Radon-Nikodym property (RNP) of Banach lattices to finitely generated Banach $C(K)$-modules and Banach $C(K)$-modules of finite multiplicity. Namely, we prove that if $X$ is a Banach space from one of these classes then its Banach dual $X^{\star }$ has the RNP iff $X$ does not contain a closed subspace isomorphic to ${\mathrm{\ell }}^1$.