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E-SAu (Salamanca) Universidad, Archivo y Biblioteca Ms 2637
Shelf-mark:
Ms 2637
Siglum:
E-SAu Ms 2637
Subcategory of book:
Plenary Missal
Category:
monophony
Completeness:
complete or nearly complete
Document type:
manuscript
Date:
12th century (second half)
Contents:
ff. 1r-167v Proprium de tempore (de dominica i in adventu ad dominica xxiiij post pentecostem), f. 167v In dedicatione ecclesiae, ff. 168v-233r Proprium de sanctis, ff. 233r-235v Commune sanctorum, ff. 235v-245r Missae votivae, f. 245r Ordo cum sponsus venerit ad ecclesiam..., f. 246r Cum introyret sacerdos in domum infirmi..., ff. 250r-260r Pro defunctis, f. 260r Benedictiones, ff. 261v-262r Exorcismi, ff. 262v-267v Troparium.
Material:
parchment
Condition of document:
Good; some margins are mutilated or sewed; the folio between folios 89 and 90 (late foliation) is torn off; the quaternion XXXIII has been rebound upside down, causing its folios to be in reverse order (see "foliation" and "gathering structure" below; for reading purposes, the corresponding pictures on this database [251r ... 258v] have been rotated 180 degrees).
Bindings:
Late hardback cover.
Foliation/Pagination:
271 folios; two flyleaves at the beginning and other two at the end; lately added arabic foliation, on pencil, from 1 to 267; original roman foliation, which begins on second folio, has some inconsistencies (absence, interpolation and repetition), especially between folios 1 and 27; because of the upside down rebinding of the quaternion XXXIII, its original roman foliation appears in reverse order, but the late arabic foliation (ff. 251-258) is posterior to this rebinding, being thus in accordance to the reverse order (see "condition of document" above).
Gathering structure:
I (ff. 1-8), II (ff. 9-18), III (ff. 19-24), IV (ff. 25-32), V (ff. 33-40), VI (ff. 41-48), VII (ff. 49-56), VIII (ff. 57-64), IX (ff. 65-72), X (ff. 73-80), XI (ff. 81-88), XII (ff. 89-95), XIII (ff. 96-103), XIV (ff. 104-111), XV (ff. 112-119), XVI (ff. 120-127), XVII (ff. 128-135), XVIII (ff. 136-143), XIX (ff. 144-151), XX (ff. 152-159), XXI (ff. 160-166), XXII (ff. 167-174), XXIII (ff. 175-182), XXIV (ff. 183-190), XXV (ff. 191-198), XXVI (ff. 199-206), XXVII (ff. 207-214), XXVIII (ff. 215-222), XXIX (ff. 223-230), XXX (ff. 231-238), XXXI (ff. 239-246), XXXII (ff. 247-250), XXXIII (ff. 251-258), XXXIV (ff. 259-266), XXXV (ff. 267)
Page layout:
2 col. 25-31 wl / 32 rl — ]20<79-80>16-17<76-77>43-46 x 27-30<258-261>55-56 [fol. 17]
2 col. 31 wl / 31 rl — ]15<78-79>17<76>33-36 x 32-34<262>49-51 [fol. 250]
Type of script:
Early Gothic
Type of notation:
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Decoration:
Initials on red, purple or black, plain or with simple decorations; capitals are decorated with phytomorphic and/or zoomorphic motifs; colors used for the decoration of capitals are red, purple, blue, brown, yellow and sepia. The most striking example of the decorative type of this Missal is on folio 2 (late foliation), a capital “A”.
Inscriptions and marks:
Some marginal inscriptions.
Remarks:
Folio 1 of arabic numbering is an addition, although contemporary to the main body of the codex; folio 17v (late foliation) contains prayers added by 15th century hand; lately added chant for Sancta Marina, popular in Galicia and several Spanish locations from the 10th-11th centuries, on folio 75v (late foliation).
The Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, where the cult of Sancta Marina was known, has been proposed as a possible origin for this MS.
References:
BORDONA, Jesús Domínguez, Manuscritos con pinturas: notas para un inventario de los conservados en colecciones públicas y privadas, Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos, 1933, nº1051; BOUDEAU, Océane, "Un missel ibérique de la seconde moitié du XIIe siècle (Salamanque, Biblioteca General Histórica, ms 2637)", unpublished; CARIDAD, E. Castro, Tropos y troparios hispánicos, Santiago de Compostela, 1991; CUESTA, Ismael Fernández de la, Manuscritos y fuentes musicales en España: Edad Media, Madrid: Alpuerto, 1980, p. 167; JANINI, José, Manuscritos litúrgicos de las bibliotecas de España, Burgos: Aldecoa, 1977-1980, pp. 236-239; PRADO, G., “El kyrial español”, AST, 14 (1941), pp. 102, 106-108; UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA (ESPAÑA), BIBLIOTECA GENERAL, Catálogo de manuscritos de la Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca. II, Manuscritos 1680-2777, edición del catálogo Óscar Lilao Franca y Carmen Castrillo González, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2002, pp. 1007-1008; WALKER, R., Views of transition: liturgy and illumination in Medieval Spain, London-Toronto, 1998; ZAPKE, Susana (ed), Hispania vetus: manuscritos litúrgico-musicales de los orígenes visigóticos a la transición francorromana (siglos IX-XII), Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2007, p. 378.
Author/s:
Diogo Alte da Veiga
Submitted by Diogo Alte da Veiga — Sun, 2012-03-25 20:09
