P-G (Guimarães) Arquivo Municipal Alfredo Pimenta C 1206
P-G C 1206
Very simple decoration. Plain initials in red and blue. Display script in red. Text and notation in black. The notation is written around a red line, a later hand added a letter 'F' at the beginning of chant 001879 which represents the pitch of the red line.
Damaged. The two pages of this bifolium are not consecutive. The fragment is mutilated/torn along the borders, especially at the bottom. Two stickers on fol. Av, the bigger one covers part of the chant. The text is: "(N. 1) Procuratorio. S. João de [...] 1576 a 1577. Lembranças curiosas de 1577 a 1580". The second library sticker shows a probably ancient shelf-mark "1648 [...]". Other reference written in ink: A-5-2-149 (also on Ar, without the first letter). Holes are in correspondence to the central folder of the bifolium. Set of pricks along the vertical external border of Ar, Bv. The folders indicate that the fragment was used as a book cover. Wrinkles and spots of humidity.
fol. A: ca 250 x ca 270, fol. B (Non uos): ca 235 x ca 270.
The original foliation is lost, traces of it can be found at the top of fol. Bv; however one can read many references with roman numerals to the pages where the chant written as incipit could be found as full text.
Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The music in the manuscripts of Guimarães (12th – 17th centuries), Guimarães, Museu de Alberto Sampaio, 2012. ISBN 978-989-97732-1-9