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 421 - 440 of 2520
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Position Cantus ID Mode Diff Diff db
043v 007 Simeon in manibus infirmitatem accepit sed Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 007745g 6
043v - 044r 008 Responsum acceperat Simeon a spiritu sancto Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 007537 6
044r 001 Lumen ad revelationem gentium et gloriam Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 007537a 6
044r 002 Simeon justus et timoratus exspectans redemptionem Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 2.3 007666 7
044r 003 Responsum acceperat Simeon a spiritu sancto Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 007666a 7
044r - 044v 004 Beata es Maria quae dominum portasti Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 2.4 006163 1T
044v 001 Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 006163a 1T
044v 002 Hodie Maria virgo puerum offert in Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M A 3. 003106 8 g 118a
044v 003 Post partum virgo inviolata permansisti. Dei Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M W 3. 008169 r
044v 004 Videte miraculum matris domini concepit virgo Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 3.1 007869 3
044v 005 Virgo concepit et virgo peperit et Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 007869b 3
044v - 045r 006 Hodie Maria virgo puerum offert in Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 3.2 006852 7
045r 001 Magnum hereditatis mysterium Christus homo factus Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 006852a 7
045r 002 Cum inducerent puerum Jesum parentes ejus Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 3.3 006367 1T
045r 003 Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 006367a 1T
045r - 045v 004 Gaude Maria virgo cunctas haereses sola Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M R 3.4 006759 6T
045v 001 Gabrielem archangelum credimus divinitus te esse Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 01 006759a 6S
045v 002 Gloria patri et filio et spiritui Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] M V 02 909000 6S
045v 003 Simeon justus et timoratus exspectabat redemptionem Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] L A 004951 3 a 97a
045v 004 Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum Purificatio Mariae [Presentationis Domini] L R 006155 r
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