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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Musical Items

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Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Cantus ID Mode
063r-063v 001 Laqueus contritus est et nos liberati undetermined MI GrV g00570a 6
063v-064r 001 Clamaverunt justi et dominus exaudivit eos undetermined MI Gr g01326 8
064r-064v 001 Juxta est dominus his qui tribulato undetermined MI GrV g01326a 8
065r 001 Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum undetermined MI Gr g00114 2
065r-065v 002 Sicut unguentum in capite quod descendit undetermined MI GrV g00114a 2
065v-066r 003 Justorum animae in manu dei sunt undetermined MI Gr g00038 5
066r-066v 001 Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori illi undetermined MI GrV g00038a 5
066v-067r 001 Vindica domine sanguinem sanctorum tuorum qui undetermined MI Gr g00470 6
067r-067v 001 Posuerunt mortalia servorum tuorum escas volatilibus undetermined MI GrV g00470a 6
067v-068r 001 Exsultabunt sancti in gloria laetabuntur in undetermined MI Gr g00475 1
068r 001 Cantate domino canticum novum laus ejus undetermined MI GrV g00475a 1
068r-068v 002 Timete dominum omnes sancti ejus quoniam undetermined MI Gr g00478 2
068v-069r 001 Inquirentes autem dominum non deficient omni undetermined MI GrV g00478a 2
069r-069v 001 Pretiosa in conspectu domini mors sanctorum undetermined MI Gr g02741.1 2
069v 001 Credidi propter quod locutus sum ego undetermined MI GrV g02741a 2
069v-070r 002 Alleluia Mirabilis dominus noster in sanctis undetermined MI Al g00040 2
070r-070v 001 Alleluia Gaudete justi in domino rectos undetermined MI Al g00024 4
070v-071r 001 Alleluia Laudate pueri dominum laudate nomen undetermined MI Al g02078 4
071v-072r 001 Alleluia Fulgebunt justi et tamquam scintillae undetermined MI Al g00325 2
072r-073r 002 Alleluia Justi epulentur et exsultent in undetermined MI Al g01322 2