P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital Pastas de fragmentos, 016 (olim Caixa 240, nº 12)

Archive: 
P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital
Siglum: 
P-BRad Pastas 016
Shelfmark: 
Pastas de fragmentos, 016 (olim Caixa 240, nº 12)
Source type: 
Missal
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
fragment
Document type: 
manuscript
Date: 
12th century
Type of notation: 
Aquitanian
Type of script: 
Early Gothic
Material: 
Parchment
Contents: 

Bifolio whose folios are not consecutive (not a central bifolio).

Page layout: 
Dimension: bifolio 393-398 x 275-279; fol. B: 236-243 x 275-279; fol. A: 155-157 x 275-279 Mise en page: two columns of ca 90 x 215-225 (left column of fol. A 80 x 215-225). 24 lines per page, some with music.
Condition of document: 
Damaged with loss of contents. Wrinkles and folds all over the fragment. Spots of humidity. The fragment was used as book cover. The top border of the fragment was severely trimmed. Fol. Br is unreadable (currently pasted on paper). Fol. Bv is partially readable, the text was originally written on two columns. The left border of fol. Bv was trimmed off but the right column and part of the left column are still visible.
Decoration: 
Display script in red. Plain initials in red or black. Text and notation in black. A dog's head is sketched at the bottom of fol. Bv.
Inscriptions: 

Two modern hands added on fol. Br: "16" (red ink) and "Caixa 240, n. 12" (blue ink).
Two additional inscriptions can be read at the bottom of the same folio, one has a strike-through. An old inscription was added at the bottom of fol. Av but it is now almost completely unreadable.

Remarks: 

P. Avelino de Jesus da Costa referes to this fragment as: "Caixa 240, 22 – Número 12 – Tombo de… ?".

References: 

COSTA Avelino de Jesus da, Pergaminhos Medievais: Inventário Ideográfico e Bibliográfico (9.vols), Braga, Seminário de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, 1944.

Completed on: 
2017-06-19