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 1181 - 1200 of 2520
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Position Cantus ID Mode Diff Diff db
092v 017 Ascendit Christus * Assumptio Mariae, infra oct. V A 200374 * * *
093r 001 Ave Maria * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M I 001042 *
093r 002 Comedi favum * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M A 1.1 001856 * * *
093r 003 Anima mea * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M A 1.2 001418 * * *
093r 004 Talis est dilectus Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M A 1.3 005098 * * *
093r 005 Ave Maria * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M W 1. 007958 * * *
093r 006 Vidi speciosam * | et cete Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M R 1.1 007878 *
093r 007 Descendi in hortum * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M A 2.1 002155 * * *
093r 008 Hortus conclusus * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M A 2.2 003137 * * *
093r 009 Maria virgo * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M A 2.3 003708 * * *
093r 010 Benedicta tu * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M W 2. 007971 *
093r 011 Alleluia * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. M A 3. 001328 * * *
093r 012 Salve regina * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. L A B 204367 * * *
093r 013 Alleluia * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. D A 001328 * * *
093r 014 Virgo prudentissima * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. V2 A 005454 * * *
093r 015 Post partum * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. V2 R 007400 *
093r 016 Speciosa * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. V2 W 008202 *
093r 017 Tota pulchra * Assumptio Mariae, dom. infra oct. V2 A M 005162 * * *
093r 018 Ecce tu pulchra * et cete Bernardi V A 002547 2 * *
093r 019 Beatus Bernardus * Bernardi V R 600239 8
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