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P-AR (Arouca) Museu Regional de Arte Sacra do Mosteiro de Arouca Res. Ms. 021
Shelf-mark:
Res. Ms. 021
Siglum:
P-AR Res. Ms. 021
Subcategory of book:
Temporal Antiphoner
Category:
monophony
Completeness:
complete or nearly complete
Document type:
manuscript
Origin:
Monastery of Alcobaça?
Main place of use:
Monastery of Arouca
Provenance:
Monastery of Arouca
Date:
c. 1200
Cursus:
Monastic
Tradition:
Cistercian
Use:
Cistercian
Contents:
Ff. 1r-182v: complete cicle of the Temporal, from the 1st Sunday of Advent to the 25th Sunday after Pentecost. Ff. 183r-192r: Invitatory tones. Ff. 192r-193v: Te Deum. Ff. 193v-211r: Hymnal. Ff. 211r-213r: Ad Cantica antiphons. Ff. 213r-213v: Ferial Office for Easter time.
Material:
parchment
Condition of document:
Fair
Bindings:
Leather over boards
Foliation/Pagination:
[1]+213+[2]. Two late arabic foliations: one from 1 up to 213, the other from 1 up to 214. Until folio 200, the latter is the correct one. From folio 201 up to the end, the correct one is the first.
Page layout:
Fl. 22r: 28<188>50 x 17<301>73
UR: 31
Type of script:
Early Gothic
Type of notation:
Square
Decoration:
Initials in several colors, sometimes with simple decorations. Capitals, some of great dimensions, richly illuminated, mainly with phytomorphic motifs and rarely with zoomorphic, anthropomorphic and/or geometrical motifs. Different artists at work: some capitals were added at a second stage, with simpler design.
Remarks:
Paper sheet, with the notated antiphon Requiem aeternam, glued on the verse of the last folio. Serving as the two final flyleaves, there's a bifolio fragment of a book of Canonical Law (with occasional references to the Archbishop of Compostela), with marginal comments (glosae). Paper sheet, with several intonation formulas, glued on the inside of the back cover. Submitted by Diogo Alte da Veiga — Thu, 2016-01-07 20:54
