P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-010
P-VV A.M. D-010
Proprium de Tempore of the more significant feasts of Eastertide. Fol. 1v Vidi aquam; fol. 2v Easter Sunday; fol. 8v week after Easter Sunday; 30r Octave of Easter ("Dominica in Albis"); 33r Ascension Thursday; 36v Sunday after Ascension; 39v Eve of Pentecost; 46v Pentecost Sunday; 53v Weekdays after Pentecost; fols. 57v sqq. Ember Day of Pentecost (Wednesday; Friday; Saturday); fol. 69r: Trinity Sunday; fol. 73 r Corpus Christi (only from the Introit verse, because fol. 72 is missing).
Initials in red and black. The initials of the more important feasts have special decoration: fol. 1v, V[idi]; fol. 3r, R[esurrexi]; fol. 30v, Q[uasi]; fol. 33v, V[iri]; fol. 47r, S[piritus].
Good.
Front cover: 584x378 mm. Fol. 4r: 567x367 mm. Most of the folios have 6 staves.
Original foliation in red ink Arabic numerals. 81 folios; fols. 5 and 73 are missing, and at the end more folios are also missing: the last chant, Of. Sacerdotes Domini, for the feast of Corpus Christi, is incomplete, and the Communio is missing.
Leather over boards; there are signs of the reinforced corners and center with iron, now missing.
ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Biblioteca do Palácio Real de Vila Viçosa (Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989).