P-Gmas (Guimarães) Museu de Alberto Sampaio LC 011
P-Gmas LC 011
From the front paste-down to initial guard-leaf 3v there are several notated chants, including an incomplete mass (Missa Votiva de Angelis). Then, the book is divided into three sections. The first (fols. 2-48v) goes from St. Andrew (beginning of Advent) to St. Catherine, covering the liturgical year; it is followed by the Dedication of a Church. The second is the Common of Saints (fols. 51r-104v). Then a collection is given of further chants, ordered by genre: Introits, Graduals, Alleluias, Offertories, Communions (fols. 105-116v). A supplement with chants for different saints is given at the end (fols. 117-118). An unrelated notated folio serves as the final guard-leaf.
Square notation on a red five-line stave.
Blue, red and blue/red capital letters with filigree and flourished ornamentation. Plain red or black capital letters. According to Magalhães, the scribe of the original core of P-Gmas LC 011 was António Pais de Coimbra and the decorations were made by monk Jorge de Santarém. 69 decorated initials were cut out.
Modern hand addition on fol. 78: "José Candido Martins Guimarães 17/7/92".
Some folios are missing (1, 33, 34, 38, 81, 82, 88, 111, 119). Some margins were cut without interfering with the text. Many decorated capitals were cut.
800 x 540 x 90 mm; 760 x 530 mm; one column 600 x 400 mm
Original foliation in Roman numerals from fol. 2 to fol. 118, which corresponds to the original core of the codex. This is a composite manuscript made up of two additional sections of three folios each placed at the beginning and the end of the original manuscript. These added sections bear no foliation/pagination but they contain musical notation. According to Magalhães eight folios are missing: fols. 1, 33, 34, 38, 81, 82, 88, and 111. There is also a reference, on fol. 3v, which indicates that a certain chant can be found on fol. 119. However, this manuscript only has 118 folios, so it is likely that fol. 119 was also lost.
Leather over boards.
In the catalogue of the Museu Alberto Sampaio, P-Gmas LC 011 has the call number 1056. According to Magalhães, the fact that there are several manuscripts from the same scribe (António Pais de Coimbra) may be an indicator that the Santa Marinha da Costa Monastery had a scriptorium. Furthermore, this monastery became an important place as it was made into a University, by the time this manuscript was made. Magalhães also mentions that this manuscript was probably used in the Monastery of Santa Marinha da Costa.
MAGALHÃES, Eduardo, "Os livros de Cantochão dos séculos XVI e XVII do Museu Alberto Sampaio" (dissertação de Mestrado, Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, 2001), pp. 96 - 103.
FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro (coord.), Harmonias do céu e da terra. A música nos manuscritos de Guimarães (séculos XII-XVII), Lisboa: CESEM, 2012, p. 82.