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P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital Pastas de fragmentos, 003
Archive:
P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital
Shelf-mark:
Pastas de fragmentos, 003
Siglum:
P-BRad Pastas 003
Subcategory of book:
Graduale
Category:
monophony
Completeness:
fragment
Document type:
manuscript
Date:
14th century (1st half)
Material:
parchment
Condition of document:
Single-leaf fragment. The recto of the fragment is slightly damaged while the verso is badly damaged and hardly legible. The top of the fragment is torn with loss of contents; a long horizontal fold divides the fragment in two halves. Many wrinkles, some holes and stitching at the bottom. The fragment was used as book cover.
Page layout:
Fragment size: 370 x 255 mm. Text area: one column of c. 295 x 190 mm. 10 text lines with musical notation.
Type of notation:
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Decoration:
Small size pen-flourished initials in black ink signal the beginning of the Alleluia verse. Medium size pen-flourished initials in red or blue. On the verso there is a big foliated "D" in blue, red and black ink but it is badly damaged. Text and notation in black ink. Medium-size neumes placed around a red line.
Inscriptions and marks:
A modern hand added "3" in red ink at the top of the recto. Inscription on the verso: "Dorray / Bar. de 1566 [...] 1763 [...] edef."
Remarks:
P. Avelino de Jesus da Costa refers to this fragment as: "Registo Paroquial - Distrito de Braga - Concelho de Barcelos - 258 – Durrãis (São Lourenço) – Livro primeiro mixto – 1564-1663". Durrães (São Lourenço) is one of the parish churches of the archdiocese of Braga.
References:
VEIGA, Diogo Alte da, "O Alleluia na monodia litúrgica em Portugal até 1600: comparações melódicas", Master Dissertation (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCSH, November 2009), p. 227.
COSTA, Avelino de Jesus da, Pergaminhos Medievais: Inventário Ideográfico e Bibliográfico (9.vols), Braga, Seminário de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, 1944.
Completed on:
2017-06-13
Submitted by Elsa De Luca — Thu, 2011-08-18 16:45
Monophonic items
| Fol | Feast | Incipit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| r | De Trinitate | ill. | |
| r | De Trinitate | Al | Alleluia Veni Sanct... |
| r | De Trinitate | Al | Alleluia Qualis Pat... |
| r | De Trinitate | Al | Alleluia Tu domine... |
| r | De Trinitate | Al | Alleluia O adoranda... |
| rv | De Trinitate | Of | Benedictus sit Deus... |
| v | De Trinitate | Cm | (Benedicimus Deum c... |
| v | Dom. 2 p. Pent. | In | (Domine in tua mise... |
| v | Dom. 2 p. Pent. | InV | ill. |
| v | Dom. 2 p. Pent. | Ky | Kyrie* |
