P-Ln (Lisboa) Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal L.C. 243

Shelfmark
L.C. 243
Siglum

P-Ln L.C. 243

Source type
Category
Document type
Date
16th century (first half)
Contents
F. 000x01r - Asperges me; f. 000x01v - Vidi Aquam. Kyriale: f. 000x02v - Kyrie tones; f. 016r - Gloria; f. 000x017r - Credo; f. 000x19r - Tones for the Sanctus; f. 000x25r - Tones for the Agnus Dei; f. 000x28r -  Tones for the Deo gratias; f. 000x30r - Deo dicamus gratias; f. 000x31r - De BMV; f. 000x32r - Adventus; f.000x34v -  Septuagesima ad Pascha; f. 003r ff. Gradual

 

Type of script
Type of notation
Description of the notation
Black square notation on five red line staves. Some chants with black semi-mensural notation. On the initial paste down there is a leaf with modern notation.
Decoration

Black initials, red initials with blue filigree designs and blue initials with red filigree designs. Blue and red initials with red and blue filigree and flourished designs (see fol. 000x03v). Some boxed initials in blue or red with geometric designs (within itself) with blue or red filigree/geometric decorations (see fol. 004v, 005v). Some flourished decorations at the margins (with birds and insects). Birds in blue or red ink (see fol. 005v, 006v, 007r etc). Peacock in blue, green and gold (fol. 74v). Rubrics in red.

Material
Condition of document

Good for the most part but sadly deprived of many illuminated capitals and the music written on the opposite side of the respective folios. Some otherwise damaged folios, a consequence of initials cut off.

Page layout

Fol. 019r: 50mm < 485mm > 90mm x 65mm < 295mm > 70mm.
Fol. 058r: 57mm < 455mm > 115mm x 53mm < 290mm > 80mm.

Foliation/Pagination

Later added roman numering in pencil from ii to xxxv. Roman numering in red ink from III to CXXX.

Bindings

Leather over boards.

Remarks

This book forms a pair with L.C. 244. Binding pastedowns include two fragments from the late 15th-century, as well as 17th-century additions.

References

BJORK, David A., The Aquitanian Kyrie Repertory of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, Burlington, 2003.

CANDELARIA, Lorenzo, “Tropes for the Ordinary in a 16th-century chantbook from Toledo, Spain”, Early Music, vol. xxxiv, no. 4 (2006), pp. 587-600+603+605-611.

Id., The Rosary Cantoral, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008.

PRADO, Germán, Supplementum ad Kyriale - Ex Codicibus Hispanicis Excerptum, Paris: Typis Societatis S. Joannis Evangelistae, 1934.
 
TELLO RUIZ-PEREZ, Arturo, «Transferencias del Canto Medieval: Los Tropos del “Ordinarium Missae” en Manuscritos Españoles», PhD diss., Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2006. Accessible at http://eprints.ucm.es/7758/1/T29576.pdf.
 
Id., Transmisión del canto litúrgico en la Edad Media. Los tropos del Ordinarium Missae en España, 2 vols., Saabrücken: LAP Lambert / Editorial Académica Española, 2011.
 
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Project ID
EXPL/ART-PER/1031/2021
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