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 401 - 420 of 2520
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Position Cantus ID Mode Diff Diff db
042r 005 Sancta dei genetrix virgo semper Maria Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 1.4 004699.1 1T d = g 66d
042r - 042v 006 Induere vestimentis gloriae tuae civitas sancti Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 1.5 202532 7 [a] [143b]
042v 001 Speciosa facta es et suavis in Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 1.6 004988 7 d 146a
042v 002 Ave Maria gratia plena. Dominus tecum. Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M W 1. 007958 r
042v 003 Adorna thalamum tuum Sion et suscipe Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 1.1 006051 8
042v 004 Induere vestimentis gloriae tuae civitas sancta Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 006051b 8
042v 005 Senex puerum portabat puer autem senem Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 1.2 007635 8
042v - 043r 006 Accipiens Simeon puerum in manibus gratias Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 007635a 8
043r 001 Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis ejus Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 1.3 007406 3
043r 002 Obtulerunt pro eo domino par turturum Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 007406a 3
043r 003 Obtulerunt pro eo domino par turturum Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 1.4 007307 2
043r 004 Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis Mariae Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 007307b.1 2
043r 005 Virgo concepit et virgo peperit et Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 2.1 205256 1 g 66d
043r - 043v 006 Sicut laetantium omnium nostrum habitatio est Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 2.2 004936 7 d 146a
043v 001 Post partum virgo inviolata permansisti dei Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 2.3 004332 7 a 143b
043v 002 Gaude Maria virgo cunctas haereses sola Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 2.4 002924 3 a 97a
043v 003 Dignare me laudare te virgo sacrata Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 2.5 002217 7 d 146a
043v 004 Beata mater et innupta virgo gloriosa Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 2.6 001570 2 d 152b
043v 005 Benedicta tu in mulieribus. Et benedictus Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M W 2. 007971 r
043v 006 Suscipiens Jesum in ulnas suas Simeon Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 2.1 007745 6
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