P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital Pastas de fragmentos, 206

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P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital
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Pastas de fragmentos, 206
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P-BRad Pastas 206

Source type
Ritual
Category
monophony
Completeness
fragment
Document type
manuscript
Date
12th century
Contents
Baptism Ceremony, including Kyrie (same as in frag. 172 in the same archive)
Type of notation
Aquitanian
Decoration

Display script in red. One plain initial on the recto ("M"). Small size colour-stroked letters in red and black; one medium sized colour-stroked "D" with simple floral decoration on the recto. Text and notation in black. Aquitanian neumes on a dry-point line.

Inscriptions
Many later inscriptions on both sides of the fragment, some are unreadable because the ink is vanished. On the recto: "206" is written in red ink, on the verso: "Mostras 7 1560 - 1569" is written in blue ink.
Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Single-page fragment in good condition despite a horizontal fold that divides the page in two halves. Some dirtiness, spots and creases. Ruling pricks: 8 mm.

Page layout

Size: 200 x 327 mm. Text area: one column of c. 140 x 257 mm. Text lines 31. On the recto there is one line with musical notation.

Remarks
P. Avelino de Jesus da Costa referes to this fragment as: "Caixa 315 - Confirmações e registos - 211 – Livro sétimo de Mostras – 1560 a 1569".
References
COSTA Avelino Jesus da, Pergaminhos Medievais: Inventário Ideográfico e Bibliográfico (9.vols), Braga, Seminário de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, 1944. BRAGANÇA, Joaquim O., "Un rituel de baptême hors de série", Miscellània Litúrgica Catalana XI, Extret, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2001, pp. 203-209.
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