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 1981 - 2000 of 2520
Folio Seq Incipit Feast Occasion Genre Position Cantus ID Mode Diff Diff db
150r - 150v 007 Verbera carnificum non timuerunt sancti dei Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 2.1 007836 7
150v 001 Tradiderunt corpora sua ad supplicia propter Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 007836b 7
150v 002 Haec est vera fraternitas quae numquam Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 2.2 006804 1
150v 003 Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 006804a 1
150v - 151r 004 Propter testamentum domini et leges paternas Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 2.3 007440 1T
151r 001 Memoria eorum non derelinquetur et nomen Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 007440zb 1T
151r 002 Justi in perpetuum vivent et apud Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 2.4 007054 6
151r 003 Deus tentavit eos et invenit illos Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 007054a 6
151r 004 Isti sunt sancti qui pro dei Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M A 3. 003442 1 g 66d
151r - 151v 005 Gloriosus deus in sanctis suis R Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M W 3. 008083 *
151v 001 Sancti per fidem vicerunt regna operati Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 3.1 602116 7
151v 002 Castra verterunt exterorum effugarunt aciem gladii Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 602116a 7
151v 003 Corpora sanctorum in pace sepulta sunt Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 3.2 006343 1T
151v 004 Sapientiam eorum narrant populi et laudem Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 006343a 1T
151v - 152r 005 Justorum animae in manu dei sunt Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 3.3 007056 8
152r 001 Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori illi Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 007056a 8
152r 002 Gloria patri et filio et spiritui Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 02 909000 8
152r 003 Laverunt stolas suas et candidas eas Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M R 3.4 601320 7
152r 004 Isti sunt qui venerunt ex magna Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 601320a 7
152r 005 Gloria patri et filio et spiritui Comm. plurimorum Martyrum M V 01 909000 7
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