P-EVp (Évora) Biblioteca Pública Pasta 3, doc. 017
P-EVp Pasta 3, doc. 017
This fragment records parts of the offices for Jacob and Inventio Stephani. The presence and structure of the former is significant in the history of Jacob's cult in the Iberian Peninsula: although many of the same items in this fragment are also found in the same order in Compostela's Breviary of Miranda, the prose Corde te pie and the antiphon Apostole Christi Iacobe are found in Spain in only a few other sources—the Breviary of Lugo in the former case, the Codex Calixtinus and the Breviary of Zamora in the latter—and, in Portugal, at Santa Cruz de Coimbra and Évora (1528 Breviary).
RUIZ TORRES 2017 (see references below) has shown that the office of Jacob antecedes (and more or less accrued independent to) the Codex Calixtinus also because of the presence of these two items in a fragment dated circa year 1100 and held in Guadalajara, in the central Spanish region of Castila. The concordance between the Guadalajara and the present fragments might thus tentatively, very cautiously indicate that offices for Jacobus spread in Portugal with a very close relationship to Compostela as here, a more indirect relationship as observed in Braga, or quite independently as in Alcobaça.
Initials of readings and first chants of each liturgical occasion in taller majuscules, red and blue ink with flourishes and filigree; other chant initials in smaller capitals in sepia ink with red fillings.
Several 17th c. inscriptions on f. Br:
13 outubro 1652
em 23 janeiro 1653
Joao Baptista de Caro
More recent hand:
Maco
9
A
Overall poor. Many sections of ink almost completely faded on the exposed pages Ar - Bv; upper and lower trimming account for roughly 15-20% loss over the original page; diffused dirtiness.
Two columns of text and music.
One reinforcing strip of parchment across the left border of fol. Ar, roughly 3 cm wide. The bigger module of both text and music and the different initials filigree make clear this strip does not belong to the same manuscript. A few isolated letters and notes are still visible, but are overall too meagre and scant to conduct any analysis.
The otherwise complete concordance between this fragment and P-BRs Ms. 028 ff. 127v - sgg in the feast for Inventio Stephani is interrupted in the choice of antiphon verse texts.
Any given antiphon psalm verse in this fragment is found in the following antiphon in the Braga manuscript (although the psalm intonations and differentiae remain identical).
For example, the verse text 'Verba mea' is used in the antiphon 'Vir dei Gamaliel' in this fragment (position 2.1), but in the successive antiphon 'Isti etenim' in the Braga manuscript (2.2.), and so forth.
Santiago Ruiz Torres, 'New evidence concerning the origin of the monophonic chants in the Codex Calixtinus' in Plainsong and Medieval Music 26 (2017), pp. 79-94.