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P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital Pastas de fragmentos, 092 (olim Caixa 284, nº 6)
Archive:
P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital
Shelf-mark:
Pastas de fragmentos, 092 (olim Caixa 284, nº 6)
Siglum:
P-BRad Pastas 092
Subcategory of book:
Missal
Category:
monophony
Completeness:
fragment
Document type:
manuscript
Date:
12th - 13th century
Material:
parchment
Condition of document:
Bifolium slightly damaged. The two pages are not consecutive. The borders were irregularly trimmed. The trimming caused loss of liturgical and musical contents along the superior and external edges. Ruling prick visible along the two sides of the central fold.The folded fragment served as book cover. The parchment of the external cover (fols. Bv-Ar) is more deteriorated and the contents less readable.
Page layout:
Size of the bifolium 430-438 x 310-317 mm. Fol. A : ca 220 x 310-317 mm. Fol. B: 210-214 x 310-317 mm. Text area: two columns of 88-100 x ca 252 mm. 29 text lines, notation only on fol. Bv.
Type of notation:
Aquitanian
Decoration:
Plain initials in red. Colour-stroked letters in red and black. Display script in red. Text and neumes in black. Aquitanian notation around a red line.
Inscriptions and marks:
Fol. Ar: "92" in red ink (modern hand). At the bottom of fol. Bv there are three inscriptions all written reversed with respect to the contents of the page: "Caixa 284, n° 6" in blue ink (modern hand); "Santa Maria the Alvora"; and another bigger but unreadable inscription. Alvora is located ca 50 km north of Braga.
Remarks:
P. Avelino de Jesus da Costa referes to this fragment as: "Caixa 284, 164 – Número 6 – Tombo de Santa Maria de Álvora, Valdevez, 1548".
References:
COSTA Avelino Jesus da, Pergaminhos Medievais: Inventário Ideográfico e Bibliográfico (9. vols), Braga, Seminário de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, 1944.
Completed on:
2017-06-26
Submitted by Elsa De Luca — Fri, 2011-08-19 15:47
