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

Archive: 
P-BRad (Braga) Arquivo Distrital
Siglum: 
P-BRad Pastas 206
Shelfmark: 
Pastas de fragmentos, 206
Source type: 
Ritual
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
fragment
Document type: 
manuscript
Date: 
12th century
Type of notation: 
Aquitanian
Material: 
Parchment
Contents: 

Baptism Ceremony, including Kyrie (same as in frag. 172 in the same archive)

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.
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.
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.

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.

Completed on: 
2017-07-07