P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital Pastas de fragmentos, 085 (olim Caixa 250, nº 23)
P-BRad Pastas 085
Plain initials in red and black; pen-flourished initials in red and blue. Display script in red. Text and notation in black.
"Pastas de fragmentos, 85 (olim Caixa 250, nº 23)" is made up of two pieces: a bifolium ("fols. A - B") and a shred of parchment in poorer condition ("fol. C"). The two pieces have been used as book cover.
Looking at the notation, it is possible to argue that fols. A - B and fol. C did not originally belong to the same codex with fragment C being probably older.
The size of the neumes is larger on fols. A - B; here, the neumes are placed around a dry-point line. On the contrary, the neumes on fol. C are much smaller and placed around a red line.
The axis of the notation on fols. A - B is vertical while it is more slanted on fol. C. Fol. C was severely trimmed, with great loss of contents. The two pages of the bifolium A-B are not consecutive and they have several wrinkles and creases all over the surface.
The borders of the bifolium were trimmed with loss of contents: the top of each folio and approx. half of each external column is now lost. The parchment on fols. Bv - Ar (external cover) is in poorer condition than Av - Br, and the ink vanished in many points.
Size of the bifolium (fols. A - B): 431-441 x 308-326 mm; fol. A 215-220 x 308-326 mm; fol. B 218-223 x 308-326 mm. Text area: two columns of 100-105 x 245-260 mm. Text lines 23, some with notation. Fragment C: ca 310 x 95 mm, text area 240 x 65 mm (one column).
COSTA Avelino Jesus da, Pergaminhos Medievais: Inventário Ideográfico e Bibliográfico (9.vols), Braga, Seminário de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, 1944.