P-Ln (Lisboa) Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal L.C. 246
P-Ln L.C. 246
Fols 1r-121v Sanctoral antiphoner (Proper of the Saints from the feast of St. Andrew to the feast of St. Clement).
Square notation on a five-line red stave, F and C clefs, custos. The notation is limited to Marian antiphons on fol. 71r-v and 73r-74v.
Red and black initials; red rubrics.
Severely damaged, with several missing folios.
520 x 375 mm. Long lines. F. 74r: 20 mm < 420 mm > 80 mm x 50 mm < 275 mm > 50 mm.
Modern foliation in Arabic numbers and in black ink on the lower outer margin, probably written before the removal from the manuscript of the currently missing folios.
15 gatherings, originally quaternions, beginning with the hair side.
Leather binding on wooden boards; four bosses on the upper board and four on the lower board. Traces of two clasps. Parchment pastedowns from a 16th century Hymnal; parchment flyleaves taken from the same Antiphoner.
Given the likely date of copying, it is possible that the book was used in the Monastery of St Jerome of Penha Longa, near Sintra. The Monastery of St Jerome of Mato, near Alenquer, is another possibility, but in 1480 it was ruined because of an earthquake, although it was rebuilt shortly afterwards on the orders of King Afonso V.