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

Shelfmark
Res. Ms. 025
Name of the source
Antiphonarium Hymnarium
Siglum

P-AR Res. Ms. 025

Source type
Subcategory of source
Category
Document type
Date
c. 1200
Cursus
Type of script
Type of notation
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
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.

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Musical Items

Displaying 41 - 60 of 2520
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Position Cantus ID Mode Diff Diff db
018v 001 Qui manducat meam carnem et bibit Corporis Christi M R 2.1 a00660 5
018v 002 Comedite amici bibite et inebriamini carissimi Corporis Christi M V 01 a00660a 5
018v 003 Misit me pater vivens et ego Corporis Christi M R 2.2 601442 5
018v 004 In me omnis gratia viae et Corporis Christi M V 01 601442b 5
018v 005 Cenantibus illis accepit Jesus panem et Corporis Christi M R 2.3 600338 7
019r 001 Videntes filii Israel manna in deserto Corporis Christi M V 01 600338b 7
019r 002 Accepit Jesus calicem postquam cenavit dicens Corporis Christi M R 2.4 600019 6
019r 003 Venite et comedite panem meum et Corporis Christi M V 01 600019b 6
019r 004 Gloria patri et filio et spiritui Corporis Christi M V 02 909000 6
019r 005 Lauda Jerusalem cum canticis salvatorem qui Corporis Christi M A 3.1 a00661 5 a 129a
019r 006 Educas panem de terra R. Et Corporis Christi M W 800134
019v 001 Unus panis et unum corpus multi Corporis Christi M R 3.1 602384 2
019v 002 Parasti in dulcedine tua pauperi deus Corporis Christi M V 01 602384a 2
019v 003 Angelorum esca nutris populum tuum domine Corporis Christi M R 3.2 a00662 3
019v 004 Domine qui das vitam mundo semper Corporis Christi M V 01 a00662a 3
019v - 020r 005 Vidit regina Saba sapientiam Salomonis domum Corporis Christi M R 3.3 a00663 4
020r 001 Regina austri venit a finibus terrae Corporis Christi M V 01 a00663a 4
020r 002 Gaudeamus et exsultemus et demus gloriam Corporis Christi M R 3.4 a00664 1
020r 003 Ahasverus pro conjunctione et nuptiis Esther Corporis Christi M V 01 a00664a 1
020r 004 Gloria patri et filio et spiritui Corporis Christi M V 02 909000 1