P-AR (Arouca) Museu Regional de Arte Sacra do Mosteiro de Arouca Res. Ms. 032
P-AR Res. Ms. 032
Initials with simple decorative designs
Latin voice names in some of the items until fol. 60r. A number of pieces have marginal notes on performance issues including transposition, and the position and number of fingers on the bassoon (baixão) and, presumedly, the viol; see the musical items. On the guard-leaf: "o primeiro salmo [illegible] sin pres[ / o segu(n)do salmo [illegible] / o terçeiro como o primeiro / o quarto como o segu(n)do"
Some folios show signs of exposure to humidity (guard-leaf and fols. 1v-16r); torn folios (guard-leaf and fol. 1r); ink corrosion in the second half of the book (especially between fols. 62v-87v)
Choirbook format, 358 X 245 mm
i + 103 + i. The number sequence is complete, although there are signs of torn folios in the two final gatherings
14 gatherings: a8 (fols. 1r-8v); b8 (fols. 9r-16v); c8 (fols. 17r-24v); d8 (fols. 25r-32v); e8 (fols. 33r-40v); f8 (fols. 41r-48v); g6 (fols. 49r-54v); h6 (fols. 55r–60v); i8 (fols. 61r-68v); j8 (fols. 69r-76v); k6 (fols. 77r-82v); l8 (-1) (fols. 83r-89v); m6 (-1+2) (fols. 90r-96v); n8 (-1) (fols. 97r-103r)
Four watermarks: 1) Trefoil/ellipse/bifoil [guard-leaf]~Gravell SPH.007.01, Heawood 3839, 3840, Melo n.º 114 and n.º 121; 2) Fleur-de-lis/crown [f. 4r]~Heawood 1627, 1629; 3) “Pilgrim” [fol. 68r]~P-Cug MM 8, MM 26, P-Ln LC 57 (Rees 1995, pp. 387, 396, 437); 4) trefoil/ellipse/bifoil/letters [added bifolium, fols. 92A-93A]~Heawood 3809, Melo n.º 117
Covers of light brown skiver
The book is clearly divided in two parts: the first (fols. 1-60), carefully written and with a concern for clarity and coherence of contents, always by the same scribe; the second (fols. 61-103), written at a later date, clearly with much less concern with visual presentation and handwriting; it is possible to find three more hands, different from the one in the first section: one on fols. 61v-80r and 98v-103r; a second one on fols. 81v-87r; and a third one on fols. 87v-98r. Folios 75v-76r consist of four part-book format folios for each of the four voice parts pasted onto the existing folios. These are richly decorated: initials in red with elaborate filigree designs; drawings of several motifs of Nature are drawn in the heading of each voice (flowers in the superius primus and tenor, a bird in the altus). Blank folios: 1r, 60v-61r, 63v-64r, 71v-74r, 78r, 80v-81r, 89r, 92Ar, 93Av, 103v The book was restored in 2018. The photographs in the image gallery show it in its previous condition.
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