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P-BRam (Braga) Arquivo Municipal Nº 012 Códices
Archive:
P-BRam (Braga) Arquivo Municipal
Shelf-mark:
Nº 012 Códices
Siglum:
P-BRam Nº 012 Códices
Subcategory of book:
Antiphoner
Category:
monophony
Completeness:
fragment
Document type:
manuscript
Cursus:
Secular
Tradition:
Aquitanian
Contents:
The fragment contains the Office for St. Gerald of Aurillac, commemorated on the 13th October, and which is also found in few other sources: F-Pn lat. 2826, lat. 944, lat. 776 and E-Tc 44.2. This Portuguese fragment includes the end of the Resp. Cumque iam tempus, four supernumerary antiphons, six antiphons for Lauds, and the Magnificat antiphon, O homo dei beate Geralde.
Contents (feasts):
Geraldi Aureliaci
Contents (feasts):
Martini
Contents (feasts):
Martini,8
Contents (feasts):
Briccii
Material:
parchment
Condition of document:
Central bifolium in decent condition.
Page layout:
Full-page column.
Type of script:
Visigothic
Type of notation:
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Description of the notation:
This Aquitanian notation uses a dry-point line and slanted puncta for sub-semitonal degrees, being thus a forerunner of the typical Portuguese notational variety of the 13th-15th centuries.
References:
Ferreira, Manuel Pedro. ''Two Offices for St. Gerald: Braga and Aurillac.'' In Commemoration, Ritual and Performance: Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Music, edited by Jane Morlet Hardie ; with David Harvey. Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2006, pp. 37-52.
Ferreira, Manuel Pedro. Aspectos da música medieval no ocidente peninsular, Volume 2. Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2009
Huglo, Michel. "La penetration des manuscrits aquitains en Espagne". Revista de Musicologia, viii, 2 (1985), pp. 249-56, at 251-2.
Completed on:
2018-07-03
Author/s:
Elsa De Luca
Submitted by Elsa De Luca — Thu, 2018-03-29 15:12
