P-Ln (Lisboa) Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal L.C. 259
P-Ln L.C. 259
This antiphonary contains the feasts from St. Andrew to St. Lawrence for an unidentified Hieronymite monastery. Several folios are missing and the manuscript is partly disordered. Folios 76 and 77 were initially placed between folios 35 and 36 (Inventio Crucis). Two bifolios from the feast of St. Paul and St. Peter, initially between folios 59 and 60, were used as flyleaves.
The texts of several of the chants, and sometimes the melodies as well, underwent alteration.
Black square notation with "Iberian pes" on five red lines. F and C clefs, custos.
Semi-mensural notation for an Invitatory (f. 40v) and for some brief responsories (f. 52r).
No illuminations. The capital letters are in red, black and blue.
The manuscript includes several marginal inscriptions (17th c.?) giving details about the chants to sing.
The condition of the document is fair. There are lacunas between the following folios: 1-2, 4-5, 5-6, 8-9, 25-26, 28-29 (with new folios added), 29-30, 32-33, 35-36, 37-38, 49-50, 59-60, 62-63, 65-68 (folios lost after the foliation), 72-73, 75-76, 77-78, 79-80. Furthermore, the manuscript shows signs of water damage and ink corrosion.
One column and six lines/page.
Arabic modern foliation (17th c.?) at the top right corner. This foliation was probably written when the manuscript was rebound and the folios cut to be adjusted to the size of the new binding.
The binding is not the original one, which was larger.
Isabel Vilares Cepeda, Manuscript catalogue of choirbooks kept in the Music Department (Música) of the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.