P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 1063 (77)
Shelfmark
MM 1063 (77)
Siglum
P-Cug MM 1063 (77)
Source type
Category
Completeness
Document type
Main place of use
Date
c. 1300?
Cursus
Type of script
Type of notation
Decoration
Plain red and blue initials. One red initial with blue swirling designs (fol. Ar), one red large capital with rich decorations in blue (fol. Cv).
Inscriptions
Ar: top left corner, "26", "a/ ". Bottom margin, in pencil: "Antifonario franciscano / Oficio de Santa Clara / e de S. Antonio de Lisboa / sec. XIII (poster. à 1255)".
Av: "RODR / IGO:" added in ink near the top.
Br: top left corner, "c/".
Bv: "Do Pe. Giraldo" later written upside down with black ink.
Cr: top left corner, "3//" in ink, cancelled in pencil with number 1. Bottom margin: "Antifonário — Véspera de Sta. Clara / Oficio de Sto. Antonio — é franciscano / Segunda metade do séc. XIII. / Está escrito em versos rítmicos latinos / É a 2ª parte do Ofício de Sto. António" recently added and written in pencil.
Cv: top left corner, "f/".
Dr: Some late illegible scrawls.
Dv: top left corner, "h/".
Many library stamps.
Material
Condition of document
Damaged. Mutilated with loss of content. With some stains and holes. The fragment was formerly used as a book cover and the external cover (Av-Dr) is now in poorer condition.
Page layout
The folios measure approximately 327 X 235 mm after trimming. Text arranged in one column. Likely to have had ten staves per page but the top is missing.
Foliation/Pagination
Later pagination with letters from "a" to "h" in pencil at the top of the pages.
Remarks
This is a rare example of a manuscript with Franciscan content copied with Aquitanian neumes (of the Portuguese variety), a notational translation of the original; since the Office of St. Clare dates from the final years of the 13th century, it was probably made not long after as a supplement to a preexisting antiphoner. The fact that it does not use square notation on staff precludes its origin in a male Franciscan convent; it may have been written by a chaplain trained in a secular religious environment and attached to, or working for a female convent. The most likely candidate is the Convent of Saint Clare in Coimbra, founded in 1283 by Dona Mor Dias and re-founded in 1314 by the Queen consort Elizabeth.
References
CORBIN, Solange, Essai sur la musique réligieuse portugaise au Moyen Age (1100-1385) (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1952).
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Project ID
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020
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