P-G (Guimarães) Arquivo Municipal Alfredo Pimenta N 046

Category

monophony

Completeness

fragment

Document type

manuscript

Date

12th - 13th century

Contents

The most interesting chants of the fragment are on f. 110r: the Offertory verses are not part of the standard, late Gregorian repertory.

Type of script

Early Gothic

Type of notation

Aquitanian

Decoration

Two inhabited initials marked by animal, floral or plant motifs. On fol. 110v there is tall 'D' (its height corresponds approximately to 8 text lines) decorated with brown, green, red, yellow. On fol. 111v there is 'F' (its height corresponds approximately to 9 text lines) decorated with red, yellow, brown. Plain initials in red and blue. Display script in red. Text and notation in black. Aquitanian neumes around a dry-point line.

Inscriptions

On fol. 110v there are some inscriptions: Masso 111C / Nota 226; 1587 / 1588.

Material

Parchment

Condition of document

Central bifolium damaged, with loss of contents. The fragment has been folded for long time and used as book cover. Spots of humidity. Fols. 110v and 111r are in poorer condition (external cover), the ink is mostly vanished. Fol. 111 has two big holes. Folds and creases all over the fragment.

Page layout

Fol. 110 ca 270 x ca 385 mm; fol. 111 ca 280 x ca 385 mm. The text is arranged in two columns. Fol. 110: left column ca 85 x ca 270 mm, right column ca 90 x ca 270 mm. Fol. 111: ca 85 x ca 270 mm. 32 text lines.

Foliation/Pagination

The original foliation is still readable on both folios: cx, cxi.

References

VEIGA, Diogo Alte da, «O Aleluia na monodia litúrgica em Portugal até 1600: comparações melódicas» (Master’s Thesis, FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2009), p. 197. 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

Description author/s

Elsa De Luca

Indexed by

Elsa De Luca

Project ID

2022.01957.PTDC

Completed on

Thu, 08/03/2017 - 12:00

Musical Items

Displaying 1 - 11 of 11

Folio	Seq	Incipit	Feast	Occasion	Genre	Cantus ID	Mode
110r	001	Benedictus sit deus pater unigenitusque dei	Sanctissimae Trinitatis	MI	Of	g01120	?
110r	002	Benedictus es qui intueris abyssos et	Sanctissimae Trinitatis	MI	OfV	g01120a	?
110r	003	Benedicamus patrem filium cum sancto spiritu	Sanctissimae Trinitatis	MI	OfV	g01120b	?
110r	004	Factus est repente*	Sanctissimae Trinitatis	MI	Cm		*
110r	005	Benedicimus Deum celi et coram omnibus	Sanctissimae Trinitatis	MI	Cm	g01121	?
110v	001	Domine (...)vit cor meum in (....) tuo	Dom. 2 p. Pent.	MI	In	g01122	?
110v	002	Usquequo Domine*	Dom. 2 p. Pent.	MI	InV	g01122a	?
110v	003	E(...) peccavi tibi	Dom. 2 p. Pent.	MI	Gr	g01123	?
111r	001	(...)m in die mala liberabit eum	Dom. 2 p. Pent.	MI	GrV	g01123a	?
111r	002	Alleluia Verba mea auribus percipe Domine	Dom. 2 p. Pent.	MI	Al	g01125	?
111v	001	Factus est Dominus protector meus et	Dom. 3 p. Pent.	MI	In	g01133	?

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