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P-G (Guimarães) Arquivo Municipal Alfredo Pimenta N 043
Shelf-mark:
N 043
Siglum:
P-G N 043
Subcategory of book:
Breviary
Category:
monophony
Completeness:
fragment
Document type:
manuscript
Date:
12th - 13th cent.
Use:
Aquitanian
Contents:
Central bifolium (Fols. A - B). On fol. Ar one can read the Responsory 'Descendit de caelis' (Cantus ID number 006410) followed by its verse. On fol. Av there is a melisma on 'Descendit' which has been compared against the five melismas (A, B, C1, C2, and D) published in KELLY, THOMAS F., 'Neuma Triplex', Acta Musicologica (1988), pp. 1-30, p. 3 (see also pp. 9, 11 et seq.). The comparison shows that the melisma in fragment P-G N 043 is similar to melismas C1 and - its longer version - C2 but it does not exactly match any of them. The melisma is followed by the prosula 'Facture tue rex' (Cantus ID a01658).
Material:
parchment
Page layout:
Two columns.
Type of notation:
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Description of the notation:
Small size neumes. The difference between a lozenge and a more or less square punctum is usually clearly defined. The 'square' puncta have the lateral borders slanted to the right and look more like parallelograms. The lozenge is not used consistently, occasionally it is possible to identify the mode of the chants (see the Cantus Index of the fragment on the right) but in many occasions the mode cannot be done either for the poor conditions of the fragment or for the lack of lozenges. When present, the lozenge is written as part of compound neumes (usually descending) and only rarely found in isolation on a single syllable. Custodes written wherever needed.
References:
On the Responsory Prosula found on fol. Av see: HILEY, DAVID, Western Plainchant: A Handbook, Clarendon Paperbacks, 1995, 200 et seq. KELLY, THOMAS F. 'Neuma Triplex', Acta Musicologica 60/1 (1988), 1-30. STEINER, RUTH, 'The Prosulae of the MS Paris BN lat. 1118', Journal of the American Musicological Society 22 (1969), 367-93.
Completed on:
2018-04-06
Author/s:
Elsa De Luca
Submitted by Elsa De Luca — Tue, 2018-04-24 10:55
Monophonic items
| Fol | Feast | Incipit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ar | Nativitas Domini | R | In principio erat v... |
| Ar | Nativitas Domini | V | O(mni)[a] p[er ipsu... |
| Ar | Nativitas Domini | Gloria... | |
| Ar | Nativitas Domini | R | Descendit de celis... |
| Av | Nativitas Domini | V | [...]ia [...]ao |
| Av | Nativitas Domini | R | Descen[dit ...] (nd... |
| Av | Nativitas Domini | V | (...) |
| Av | Nativitas Domini | Tp | Facture tue rex ful... |
| Av | Nativitas Domini | Va | Initium sancti evan... |
| Av | Nativitas Domini | L | Liber generationis... |
| Br | Nativitas Domini | A | Natus est nobis (ho... |
| Br | Nativitas Domini | A | Genuit puerper(a re... |
| Br | Nativitas Domini | A | A(ngelus) [ad pasto... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | A | [Facta est cum ange... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | A | [Par](vulus filius)... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | H | [A sol]is or[t]u ( |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | W | [N]otum fecit domin... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | A | Gloria in excelsis... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | A | Lux orta [est s]upe... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | A | Hodie (intacta) [vi... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | R | Hodie natus est dom... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | V | Sic enim scriptum e... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | V | G[l]o[r]ia [p] |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | R | Hodie natus e* |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | W | Puer natus est nobi... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | R | Verbum caro factum... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | V | Et vidimus gloriam... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | V | Gloria* |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | W | Notum fecit dominus... |
| Bv | Nativitas Domini | A | Gaudeamus* |
