P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital Pasta de fragmentos, 244 (olim Miscelânia de pergaminhos nº 12) [Previously, caixa 243, nº 1]
P-BRad Pasta 244
The first responsory on fol. Av has an inhabited initial "S" decorated with a dog(?) and some leaves. Text and notation in black. Display script in red. Capital letters in red or black with very simple decoration.
Fol. Ar: "12" written in blue ink by a modern hand; "244" written in red ink by a modern hand. Fol. Av: modern hands added "Ig.", "Guilhafons…" and "Sancta Comb…".
Bifolium badly damaged. Folio B has a severe vertical cut: the page is reduced to about 1/4 of its original size. The two pages of the bifolium are not consecutive. The folds and the lateral cut suggest that the fragment was used as a bookbinding. There is a small library sticker on fol. Ar with the shelf-mark "12".
Size of the whole fragment: 440 x ca 395 mm. Fol. A: ca 435 x 309 mm. Fol. B: ca 440 x 85 mm. Text area fol. A: ca 324 x 244 mm. Text area fol. B: ca 325 x 68 mm. Text lines on each page: 13. Music lines on each page: 13.
P. Avelino de Jesus da Costa refers to this fragment as: "Caixa 243, 35 – Número 1 – Tombo de Santa Comba de Guilhafonse, 1541". "Santa Comba de Guilhafonse" corresponds today to the parish of Santa Comba in Vila Fonche, located ca 40 km north of Braga.
COSTA Avelino de Jesus da, Pergaminhos Medievais: Inventário Ideográfico e Bibliográfico (9.vols), Braga, Seminário de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, 1944. COSTA Avelino de Jesus da; ALMEIDA Luís Ferrand de: A biblioteca e o tesouro da Sé de Braga nos séculos XV a XVIII, Braga: Revista "Theologica" 1984, pp. 221, 328 (plate 45).