P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-008

Archive: 
P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real
Siglum: 
P-VV A.M. D-008
Shelfmark: 
A.M. D-008
Source type: 
Gradual
Subcategory of source: 
Temporal gradual
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
complete or nearly complete
Document type: 
manuscript
Date: 
1622
Type of notation: 
Square
Type of script: 
Late Gothic
Material: 
Parchment
Contents: 

Proprium de Tempore from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday; fol. 1v Ash Wednesday; fol. 16r 1st Sunday of Lent; fol. 30v
Ember Day, Lent (Friday and Saturday); fol. 105r 5th Sunday of Lent (Passion Sunday); fol. 124v Palm Sunday; fol. 144r Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday); fol. 148r Good Friday; 165v Holy Saturday.

Foliation/Pagination: 
Original foliation in red ink Arabic numerals. 177 fols.
Page layout: 
Most of the folios have 6 staves.
Condition of document: 
Very good.
Bindings: 
Leather over boards; reinforced corners and center with decorated golden iron.
Decoration: 
Initials in blue, red and black, with filigree designs on same or alternate colours. Some initials have special decoration: fol. 1v, E[xaudi]; fol. 6r, M[isereris]; fol. 125r, H[osanna]; fol. 128v, D[omine]; 144v, N[os].
Inscriptions: 

Fol. 1r: «Liber Missarum a f[eria] 4 Cinerum / usque ad Saba[t]um Sãctu[m] in/clusiue, iuxta Missale / Romanu[m] auctoritate Clementis. 8. / recognitu[m]. / Anno D[omi]ni 1622.

Remarks: 

On the first guard leaf, a later hand wrote the «Missa Septem Dolorum B. Virginis Mariae» (Introitus, Gradual, Offertorium, Communio, and Sequentia, the latter in white mensural notation).

References: 

ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Biblioteca do Palácio Real de Vila Viçosa (Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989).

External references: 
Catálogo do Arquivo Musical do Museu-Biblioteca da Casa de Bragança
Completed on: 
2022-07-11
Description author/s: 
Alberto Medina de Seiça