Antiphonarium Hymnarium P-AR (Arouca) Museu Regional de Arte Sacra do Mosteiro de Arouca Res. Ms. 025

Archive: 
P-AR (Arouca) Museu Regional de Arte Sacra do Mosteiro de Arouca
Siglum: 
P-AR Res. Ms. 025
Shelfmark: 
Res. Ms. 025
Source type: 
Antiphoner
Subcategory of source: 
Sanctoral antiphoner
Category: 
mixed
Completeness: 
complete or nearly complete
Document type: 
manuscript
Origin: 
Alcobaça, Mosteiro de Santa Maria?
Main place of use: 
Arouca, Mosteiro de Santa Maria
Provenance: 
Alcobaça, Mosteiro de Santa Maria?
Date: 
c. 1200
Type of notation: 
Square
Type of script: 
Early Gothic
Contents (feasts): 
Agathae
Agnetis
Ambrosii
Andreae
Annuntiatio Mariae
Assumptio Mariae
Benedicti
Bernardi
Blasii
Caeciliae
Clementis
Comm. Apostolorum
Comm. Apostolorum sive Martyrum TP
Comm. duorum Apostolorum
Comm. Evangelistarum
Comm. plurimorum Martyrum
Comm. plurimorum Virginum
Comm. unius Confessoris non Pontificis
Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis
Comm. unius Confessoris TP
Comm. unius Martyris
Comm. unius Virginis
Conceptio Mariae
Conversio Pauli
Corporis Christi
Decoll. Jo. Bapt.
Dom. post Ascensionem
Exaltatio Crucis
In Dedicatione Ecclesiae
Inventio Crucis
Inventio Stephani
Joannis Baptistae
Joannis Evang.
Laurentii
Lucae
Marci
Mariae Magdalenae
Martini
Martini,8
Michaelis
Nat. Innocentium
Nativitas Mariae
Omnium Sanctorum
Pauli
Petri, Pauli
Petri, Pauli,8
Philippi, Jacobi
Purificatio Mariae
Sabb. post Ascensionem
Scholasticae
Stephani
Vincula Petri
Material: 
Parchment
Cursus: 
Monastic
Tradition: 
Cistercian (tradition)
Use: 
Cistercian
Foliation/Pagination: 
204 folios numbered in pencil (later Arabic numeration).
Page layout: 
Folios measure approx. 360 x 239 mm. One column, 185-190 x 300 mm.
Condition of document: 
Good. Slightly stained and with occasional wrinkles.
Bindings: 
Leather over wooden boards, locks and five metal staples in the corners and centre.
Decoration: 
Complexly decorated initials for the first matins responsory of major feasts. They all share rather intricate floral patterns and, more rarely, zoomorphic with colour patterns of deep red, light red/pink, orange, blue and azul. Other chant initials generally in taller letters of blue, red and green.
Inscriptions: 

At the end (fol. 202v), a note refers to an earlier binding, made in 1483: "Era do nacime[n]to de noso senor Jh[es]u [Christ]o de mill e iiij lxxxiii anos. xxx dias ... [i]dos de jullhu Eu Joham alverus indigno sacerdote e[n]cadernei este liv[r]o co[m] [ou]t[r]os muitos deste mosteiro p[er] ma[n]dado [da] Sra dona lianor coutinha abdesa d'arouq e f[ilh]a do co[n]de de ma[ri]alva do[m] g[onçal]o e da co[n]desa dona beiat[r]iz de melo sua molher".

Remarks: 

Antiphons for each nocturne and for second vespers in the feasts of Stephen, John the Evangelist and Nativity of an Innocent (ff. 23v - 32v) are not reported, only being cued with the indication 'et cete' that follows the written incipit of the first antiphon of the series.

Antiphon series start being written out in full on f. 33r, for the feast of Agnes.

References: 

FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro,“Early Cistercian Polyphony: A Newly-Discovered Source”, Lusitania Sacra, 2ª série,Tomo XIII-XIV, 2001-2002, pp. 267-313 (versão portuguesa, revista: "O hino polifónico de Arouca no contexto cisterciense", in id., Aspectos da música medieval no Ocidente peninsular, vol. II, Lisboa: F. C. Gulbenkian/IN-CM, pp. 212-254); id., Antologia de música em Portugal na Idade Média e no Renascimento, vol. I, CESEM/Arte das Musas, Lisboa, 2008, p.141; vol.II, p. 38; FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro & FORTU, Mara, “A música antiga nos manuscritos de Arouca, contribuição para um catálogo”, in O orgão do Mosteiro de Arouca: Conservação e restauro do património musical, Arouca, 2009, pp.45-53. FORTU, Mara, “Os manuscritos litúrgico-musicais da Ordem de Cister em Portugal e na Galiza”, in Actas do IV Congresso Internacional sobre El Císter en Portugal y Galicia, “Los caminos de Santiago y la vida Monástica Cisterciense”, vol. II, Braga-Oseira, Ediciones Monte Casino, Zamora, España, 2010, pp. 755-774. HENRIQUES, Luís C. F., "O Ofício de Matinas para a Festa de São Bernardo: o testemunho do manuscrito P-AR Ms 25", in Do Espírito do Lugar - Música, Estética, Silêncio, Espaço, Luz, coord. Antónia Fialho Conde e António Camões Gouveia, Évora: Cidehus, 2016, pp. 181-192.

Name of the source: 
Antiphonarium Hymnarium
Description of the notation: 

Square notation in black on four red lines (on f. 3r only, lines black as well).

Indexed by: 
Giulio Minniti