P-AR (Arouca) Museu Regional de Arte Sacra do Mosteiro de Arouca Res. Ms. 025

Archive
P-AR (Arouca) Museu Regional de Arte Sacra do Mosteiro de Arouca
Shelfmark
Res. Ms. 025
Name of the source
Antiphonarium Hymnarium
Siglum

P-AR Res. Ms. 025

Source type
Antiphoner
Subcategory of source
Sanctoral antiphoner
Category
mixed
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Origin
Alcobaça, Mosteiro de Santa Maria?
Main place of use
Arouca, Mosteiro de Santa Maria
Provenance
Alcobaça, Mosteiro de Santa Maria?
Date
c. 1200
Cursus
Monastic
Tradition
Cistercian (tradition)
Type of script
Early Gothic
Type of notation
Square
Description of the notation
Square notation in black on four red lines (on f. 3r only, lines black as well).
Decoration

Complexly decorated initials for the first matins responsory of major feasts. They all share rather intricate floral patterns and, more rarely, zoomorphic with colour patterns of deep red, light red/pink, orange, blue and azul.

Other chant initials generally in taller letters of blue, red and green.

Inscriptions
At the end (fol. 202v), a note refers to an earlier binding, made in 1483: "Era do nacime[n]to de noso senor Jh[es]u [Christ]o de mill e iiij lxxxiii anos. xxx dias ... [i]dos de jullhu Eu Joham alverus indigno sacerdote e[n]cadernei este liv[r]o co[m] [ou]t[r]os muitos deste mosteiro p[er] ma[n]dado [da] Sra dona lianor coutinha abdesa d'arouq e f[ilh]a do co[n]de de ma[ri]alva do[m] g[onçal]o e da co[n]desa dona beiat[r]iz de melo sua molher".
Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Good. Slightly stained and with occasional wrinkles.

Page layout

Folios measure approx. 360 x 239 mm. One column, 185-190 x 300 mm.

Foliation/Pagination

204 folios numbered in pencil (later Arabic numeration).

Bindings

Leather over wooden boards, locks and five metal staples in the corners and centre.

Remarks
Antiphons for each nocturne and for second vespers in the feasts of Stephen, John the Evangelist and Nativity of an Innocent (ff. 23v - 32v) are not reported, only being cued with the indication 'et cete' that follows the written incipit of the first antiphon of the series. Antiphon series start being written out in full on f. 33r, for the feast of Agnes.
References

FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro,“Early Cistercian Polyphony: A Newly-Discovered Source”, Lusitania Sacra, 2ª série,Tomo XIII-XIV, 2001-2002, pp. 267-313 (versão portuguesa, revista: "O hino polifónico de Arouca no contexto cisterciense", in id., Aspectos da música medieval no Ocidente peninsular, vol. II, Lisboa: F. C. Gulbenkian/IN-CM, pp. 212-254); id., Antologia de música em Portugal na Idade Média e no Renascimento, vol. I, CESEM/Arte das Musas, Lisboa, 2008, p.141; vol.II, p. 38; FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro & FORTU, Mara, “A música antiga nos manuscritos de Arouca, contribuição para um catálogo”, in O orgão do Mosteiro de Arouca: Conservação e restauro do património musical, Arouca, 2009, pp.45-53. FORTU, Mara, “Os manuscritos litúrgico-musicais da Ordem de Cister em Portugal e na Galiza”, in Actas do IV Congresso Internacional sobre El Císter en Portugal y Galicia, “Los caminos de Santiago y la vida Monástica Cisterciense”, vol. II, Braga-Oseira, Ediciones Monte Casino, Zamora, España, 2010, pp. 755-774. HENRIQUES, Luís C. F., "O Ofício de Matinas para a Festa de São Bernardo: o testemunho do manuscrito P-AR Ms 25", in Do Espírito do Lugar - Música, Estética, Silêncio, Espaço, Luz, coord. Antónia Fialho Conde e António Camões Gouveia, Évora: Cidehus, 2016, pp. 181-192.

Indexed by
Giulio Minniti

Musical Items

Displaying 2021 - 2040 of 2520
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Position Cantus ID Mode Diff Diff db
153r 007 Stola gloriae induit eum Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis V V 01 006080a *
153r 008 Ecce sacerdos magnus R. Qui in Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis V W 008040 *
153r 009 Similabo eum viro sapienti qui aedificavit Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis V A M 004952 1T d = g T66d
153v 001 Regem confessorum dominum venite adoremus | Venite Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M I 001129 3
153v 002 Beatus vir * et cete Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M A 1.1 001674 3 * *
153v 002 Beatus vir * et cete Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M A 1.1 001674 3 * *
153v 003 Justum deduxit dominus per vias rectas Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M W 1. 008115 *
153v 004 Euge serve bone et fidelis quia Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M R 1.1 006677 7
153v 005 Domine quinque talenta tradidisti mihi ecce Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M V 01 006677a 7
153v - 154r 006 Ecce sacerdos magnus qui in diebus Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M R 1.2 006609 8
154r 001 Benedictionem omnium gentium dedit illi et Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M V 01 006609a 8
154r 002 Juravit dominus et non paenitebit eum Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M R 1.3 007046 8
154r 003 Dixit dominus domino meo sede a Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M V 01 007046a 8
154r - 154v 004 Iste sanctus digne in memoriam vertitur Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M R 1.4 007009 1T
154v 001 Vinculis carnis absolutus talentum sibi creditum Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M V 01 007009a 1T
154v 002 Domine iste * et cete Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M A 2.1 002350 8 * *
154v 003 Amavit eum dominus et ornavit eum Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M W 2. 007941 *
154v 004 Posui adjutorium super potentem et exaltavi Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M R 2.1 007411 1T
154v 004 Posui adjutorium super potentem et exaltavi Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M R 2.1 007411 1T
154v 005 Inveni David servum meum oleo sancto Comm. unius Confessoris Pontificis M V 01 007411a 1T
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