P-Cm (Coimbra) Biblioteca Municipal FPM-B50-07

Archive: 
P-Cm (Coimbra) Biblioteca Municipal
Siglum: 
P-Cm FPM-B50-07
Shelfmark: 
FPM-B50-07
Source type: 
Antiphoner
Subcategory of source: 
Sanctoral antiphoner
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
fragment
Document type: 
manuscript
Date: 
c. 1400
Type of notation: 
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Type of script: 
Gothic
Contents (feasts): 
Inventio Stephani
Vincula Petri
Material: 
Parchment
Cursus: 
Secular
Page layout: 
c. 410 x c. 320 mm, 2 col.18rl / 10 wl, c. 340 x c. 125 mm.
Condition of document: 
Poor overall. Exposed side (recto) ink ranging from barely readable to completely faded out; non-exposed side ink still readible. Creases at the middle of the page make it difficult to read about two lines of text and music. Upper trimming resulted in the loss of one line of notation.
Decoration: 
Red and blue initials; brown initials with red decorations for the Lauds antiphons; rubrics in red
Inscriptions: 

On the verso, bottom margin: paper sticker ("ROTEIRO" nº 1039 /Receita e despeza / 1579 / 6) and stamp (Arquivo Histórico Municipal, Coimbra).

Remarks: 

The antiphon O claviger caeli is of particular interest, since as of May '22 it is only found in CANTUS in the antiphoner Paris, Bnf Lat. 1090, from Marseille, and in a dozen more Iberian sources, including a MS from Huesca Cathedral and P-Br Ms. 28. Indeed several items for the Vincula Petri feast decidedly refer to the Aquitanian - Iberian tradition (e.g. 602611, 002660, 201288, etc...).

References: 

CORBIN, Solange, Essai sur la musique religieuse portugaise au Moyen Age (1100-1385), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1952

Description of the notation: 

Aquitanian notation of Portuguese variety, with the lozange used both in isolation and in descending chains of notes (it may sometimes be hardly discernible from a standard square).

Reviewed by: 
Giulio Minniti
Project ID: 
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020