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P-G (Guimarães) Arquivo Municipal Alfredo Pimenta C 627
Shelf-mark:
C 627
Siglum:
P-G C 627
Subcategory of book:
Gradual
Category:
monophony
Completeness:
fragment
Document type:
manuscript
Date:
14th century
Contents:
The fragment contains the chants for the Mass Proper of the third Sunday of Advent. On the verso the Communion is followed by the rubric "Feria IIII in Quatuor Tempora [Adventus]" whose chants were probably written on the next (now lost) page.
Material:
parchment
Condition of document:
Damaged. The fragment is now used as book cover; a fold in the middle of the folio impedes the reading of the contents. On the recto there are two library stickers, which identify the book that the fragment currently covers. The first sticker reads: "502 A-3-1-50", the second: "Fazenda N. 22".
Page layout:
c. 280 x c. 440, one column c. 230 x c. 340, 16 lines alternating text and music.
Type of script:
Gothic
Type of notation:
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Decoration:
Blue initials with blue filigree designs, red initials with blue/sepia decorations, brown initial with red decoration.
Inscriptions and marks:
A modern hand added the inscription "1578-1579 Livro da Fazenda" on the recto, left margin of the page. Another hand added an inscription on the verso (picture 2): it is in Portuguese and it seems to provide further information about the provenance of the fragment. One more modern hand penned "A-3-1-50" on the verso side.
Remarks:
This is possibly one of the few fragments in Guimarães mentioned by Solange Corbin (see below) although she describes the contents as excerpts from a Marian Mass in Advent.
References:
Inventário dos códices iluminados até 1500, Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional, 2001, Vol. 2, p. 58.
CORBIN, Solange, Essai sur la musique religieuse portugaise au Moyen Age (1100-1385), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1952, p. 182 & Table "Classement des Manuscrits".
Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The music in the manuscripts of Guimarães (12th – 17th centuries), Guimarães, Museu de Alberto Sampaio, 2012. ISBN 978-989-97732-1-9
Completed on:
2017-08-07
Author/s:
Elsa De Luca
Submitted by Elsa De Luca — Fri, 2012-05-18 15:51
Monophonic items
| Fol | Feast | Incipit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| r | Dom. 3 Adventus | Al | [...]niet Christus... |
| r | Dom. 3 Adventus | Of | Benedixisti Domine... |
| r | Dom. 3 Adventus | Cm | Dicite pusillanimes... |
| v | Fer. 4 Q.T. Adventus | In | Rorate celi desuper... |
| v | Fer. 4 Q.T. Adventus | InV | Celi enarrant* |
| v | Fer. 4 Q.T. Adventus | Gr | Tollite portas prin... |
| v | Fer. 4 Q.T. Adventus | GrV | Quis ascendet in mo... |
