P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital Pasta 142

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P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital
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Pasta 142
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P-BRad Pasta 142

Source type
Breviary
Subcategory of source
Noted breviary
Category
monophony
Completeness
fragment
Document type
manuscript
Date
13th century
Contents

This is a single folio fragment. Both sides contain chants for the feast "In dedicatione ecclesiae".

Contents (feasts)
In Dedicatione Ecclesiae
Type of script
Gothic
Type of notation
Aquitanian
Description of the notation

Red line for notation, medium-sized neumes. Presence of special signs such as "virga cornuta" and liquescences. Clivis and climacus always show the last note as a squared punctum, while the upper notes (the first one for the clivis) are rhombus-shaped, without carrying any melodic feature. Custodes, left-oriented.

Decoration

Red and blue simple initials for the beginning of the textual parts. Brown ink initials for the chants, with simple filigree. Rubrics in red.

Inscriptions

Recto: one modern inscription in red pencil reading "142".

Verso:

Two inscriptions. The most modern one, in blue pen, in the mid-top part of the folio reads "Caixa 290 nº8"; the other one, in brown ink, starting "Livro do (...)" is not easy to read.

 

Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Fair. The folio was used as a cover and it has been cut and folded to fit the size of the book, leading to some content loss. Dirtiness on the verso side, two spots on both sides.

Page layout

Two columns with 33 lines each of text and music.

Foliation/Pagination

This is a single folio fragment without foliation/pagination.

Description author/s
Francesco Orio
Indexed by
Francesco Orio
Project ID
2022.01957.PTDC
Reviewed by
Manuel P. Ferreira