P-Cua (Coimbra) Arquivo Distrital e da Universidade IV-3ª Gav. 44 (22)

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P-Cua (Coimbra) Arquivo Distrital e da Universidade
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IV-3ª Gav. 44 (22)
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P-Cua IV-3ª Gav. 44 (22)

Source type
Liber misticus
Category
monophony
Completeness
fragment
Document type
manuscript
Main place of use
Coimbra, Cathedral?
Date
c. 1000
Tradition
Old Hispanic (tradition)
Contents
Temporale in December: end of Vespers for Saturday before the 3rd Sunday in Advent, and beginning of this Sunday's early morning hour (corresponding to the Lauds of Roman rite).
Type of script
Visigothic
Type of notation
Old Hispanic
Description of the notation
Horizontal (Toledan?) variety of Visigothic musical notation.
Decoration

Rubrics in red.

Material
Parchment
Condition of document

good

Page layout

272 x 218 mm, 1 col. / 20 text lines, some with music (r/v) 267 x 171 mm.

Remarks

The manuscript, first described in 1929, has been variously dated from the 10th-century (Vasconcellos, Diaz y Diaz), the early 11th-century (Rojo & Prado, followed by Corbin, Brou, Millares Carlo, Queirós, Azevedo), or c. 1000 (Ferreira). Its place of origin is unknown, although Toledo (E) has been assumed by most scholars on account of the musical notation.

References

ROJO Casiano, PRADO German, El Canto Mozárabe, Barcelona, 1929, pp. 37 (plate 10.2), 39.

VASCONCELOS, António de, “Fragmento precioso dum códice visigótico”, in Biblos, Vol. (1929), pp. 245-73.

CORBIN, Solange, Essai sur la musique réligieuse portugaise au Moyen Age (1100-1385), Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1952, p. 173.

BROU, Louis, “Notes de paléographie musicale mozarabe”, Anuario musical, X (1955), pp. 23-44.

MILLARES CARLO, Augustín, Manuscritos visigóticos: notas bibliográficas, Barcelona-Madrid: CSIC, 1963, pp. 13-14.

RANDEL, Don M., An Index of the Mozarabic Chant, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

COSTA, Avelino de Jesus da, “Coimbra — Centro de atracção e de irradiação de códices e de documentos, dentro da Península, nos séculos XI e XII”, in Actas das II Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de História Medieval, Porto: Porto Inst. Nacional de Inv. Científica, 1990, vol. 3.

FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro, “Three Fragments from Lamego”, Revista de Musicología, XVI (1993), pp. 457-76 (Port. translation and footnotes in id., Aspectos da Música Medieval, vol. II, pp. 58-81 [60-62]).

QUEIRÓS, Abílio, “Inventário dos fragmentos litúrgico-musicais existentes na A.U.C.”, Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra, 15-16 (1995-1996).

SANTOS, Maria José Azevedo, & DUARTE, Marco Daniel, “Antiphonary (fragmentum)” in Hispania Vetus, ed. S. Zapke, Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2007, pp. 312-13.

FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro, Antologia de Música em Portugal na Idade Média e no Renascimento, Lisboa: CESEM / Arte das Musas, 2008, vol. I, p. 11 and Plates I-II.

ZAPKE, Susana, “Dating neumes according to their morphology: the corpus of Toledo”, in The Calligraphy of Medieval Music, ed. John Haines, Turnhout: Brepols, 2011, pp. 91-99, Plate 4.

ROJO CARRILLO, Raquel, “Old Hispanic Chant Manuscripts of Toledo: Testimonies of a Local or of a Wider Tradition?”, in A Companion to Medieval Toledo, ed. Y. Beale-Rivaya & J. Busic, Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 97-139.

Indexed by
Ana Delfina Carvalho
Project ID
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020
Reviewed by
Elsa De Luca