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

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 121 - 140 of 2520

Folio	Seq	Incipit	Feast	Occasion	Genre	Position	Cantus ID	Mode	Diff	Diff db
024v	005	Impetum fecerunt unanimes in eum et	Stephani	M	R	2.3	006885	1T
024v - 025r	006	Et testes deposuerunt vestimenta sua secus	Stephani	M	V	01	006885b	1T
025r	001	Pretiosus athleta domini Stephanus positis genibus	Stephani	M	R	2.4	601873	1
025r	002	Lapidabant Judaei Stephanum at ille orabat	Stephani	M	V	01	601873b	1
025r	003	Gloria patri et filio et spiritui	Stephani	M	V	02	909000	1
025r	004	Nisi granum frumenti cadens in terra	Stephani	M	A	3.	003883	5	a	129a
025r	005	Magna est gloria ejus *	Stephani	M	W	3.	008130	*
025r	006	Intuens in caelum beatus Stephanus vidit	Stephani	M	R	3.1	006984	3
025r	007	Cumque aspiceret beatus Stephanus in caelum	Stephani	M	V	01	006984a	3
025r - 025v	008	Patefactae sunt januae caeli Christi martyri	Stephani	M	R	3.2	007358	4T
025v	001	Mortem enim quam salvator dignatus est	Stephani	M	V	01	007358a	4T
025v	002	Positis genibus beatus Stephanus clamavit voce	Stephani	M	R	3.3	602613	6
025v	003	Lapidabant Stephanum invocantem et dicentem domine	Stephani	M	V	01	602613a	5
025v - 026r	004	Sancte dei pretiose protomartyr Stephane qui	Stephani	M	R	3.4	007575	1
026r	001	Ut tuo propitiatus interventu dominus nos	Stephani	M	V	01	007575a	1
026r	002	Gloria patri et filio et spiritui	Stephani	M	V	02	909000	1
026r	003	Cum autem esset Stephanus plenus spiritu	Stephani	E	A	1	001987	1T	a = d	T66d
026r	004	Posuisti domine *	Stephani	M	R		007412	p
026r	005	Justus germinabit *	Stephani	M	W		008116	*
026r	006	Patefactae sunt januae caeli Christi martyri	Stephani	E	A	B	004229	8	g	118a

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