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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EXPL/ART-PER/1031/2021
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Musical Items

Displaying 101 - 120 of 323
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Cantus ID Mode
029r-029v 002 Et constituisti eum super opera manuum Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI GrV g01282b 6
029v-030r 001 Justus non conturbabitur quia dominus firmat Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Gr g02344 6
030r 001 Tota die miseretur et commodat et Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI GrV g02344a 6
030v-031r 001 Posuisti domine super caput ejus coronam Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Gr g02233 1
031r-031v 001 Desiderium animae ejus tribuisti ei et Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI GrV g02233a 1
031v-032r 001 Alleluia Beatus vir qui timet dominum Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Al 008416.1 6
032r-033r 001 Alleluia Posuisti domine super caput ejus Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Al g01302 1
033r-033v 001 [A]lleluia Justus non conturbabitur quia Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Al g00323 1
033v-034r 001 Alleluia Qui sequitur me non ambulat Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Al g01297 2
034r-035r 001 Alleluia Laetabitur justus in domino et Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Al g02236 7
035r-035v 001 Alleluia Gloria et honore coronasti eum Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Al g02346.1 2
035v 001 Desiderium animae ejus* Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Tc g01275 *
035v-036r 002 In virtute tua domine laetabitur justus Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Of g01357 1
036r-036v 001 Gloria et honore coronasti eum et Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Of g01260 1
037r-037v 001 Desiderium animae ejus tribuisti ei domine Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Of g01363 6
037v-038v 001 Posuisti domine in capite ejus coronam Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Of g01298 8
038v 001 Qui vult venire post me abneget Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Cm g01293 1
039r 001 Magna est gloria ejus in salutari Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Cm g01261 4
039r-039v 002 Qui mihi ministrat me sequatur et Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Cm g01299 5
039v 001 Posuisti domine in capite* Comm. unius Martyris non Pontificis MI Cm g01289 *