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 601 - 620 of 2520
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Position Cantus ID Mode Diff Diff db
057r - 057v 007 Missus est Gabriel angelus ad Mariam Annuntiatio Mariae M A 1.1 003794 8 g 118a
057v 001 Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum Annuntiatio Mariae M A 1.2 001539 1 g 66d
057v 002 Benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus Annuntiatio Mariae M A 1.3 001709 7 a 143b
057v 003 Quomodo fiet istud angele dei quia Annuntiatio Mariae M A 1.4 004563 7 a 143b
057v 004 Prophetae praedicaverunt nasci salvatorem de virgine Annuntiatio Mariae M A 1.5 004392 1 g 66d
057v 005 Ecce in nubibus caeli dominus veniet Annuntiatio Mariae M A 1.6 002515 1 g 66d
057v 006 Alleluia * Annuntiatio Mariae M I 100304 2T
057v 007 Ave Maria gratia plena R. Dominus Annuntiatio Mariae M W 1. 007958.1 *
058r 001 Missus est Gabriel angelus ad Mariam Annuntiatio Mariae M R 1.1 007170 7
058r 002 Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum Annuntiatio Mariae M V 01 007170a 7
058r - 058v 003 Ave Maria gratia plena dominus tecum Annuntiatio Mariae M R 1.2 006157 7
058v 001 Quomodo fiet istud quoniam virum non Annuntiatio Mariae M V 01 006157a 7
058v 002 Radix Jesse qui exsurget judicare gentes Annuntiatio Mariae M R 1.3 007508 8
058v 003 Ecce virgo concipiet et pariet filium Annuntiatio Mariae M V 01 007508c 8
058v - 059r 004 Suscipe verbum virgo Maria quod tibi Annuntiatio Mariae M R 1.4 007744 4T
059r 001 Paries quidem filium et virginitatis non Annuntiatio Mariae M V 01 007744b 4T
059r 002 Ne timeas Maria invenisti gratiam apud Annuntiatio Mariae M A 2.1 003863 8 g 118a
059r 003 Dabit ei dominus sedem David patris Annuntiatio Mariae M A 2.2 002092 1T d = g T66d
059r 004 Ecce ancilla domini fiat mihi secundum Annuntiatio Mariae M A 2.3 002491 8 c 99d
059r 005 Beata es Maria quae credidisti perficientur Annuntiatio Mariae M A 2.4 001565 8 g 118a
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