E-Sco (Sevilla) Institución Colombina Libro 056

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Libro 056
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E-Sco Libro 056

Source type
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Document type
Main place of use
Date
15th century (second half)
Cursus
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Type of notation
Decoration

Richly illuminated manuscript, with use of several colours and gold, with phytomorphic motifs. Capital letters in this decorative style, otherwise plain, in red. Initials in brown decorated in the same colour and sepia, sometimes with filigree.

Material
Condition of document

Fair

Foliation/Pagination

51 folios. Lately added arabic numbering.

Bindings

Leather over boards, painted with decorations in brown, with metal staples and locks.

Remarks
This manuscript has been updated in the last quarter of the 16t century according to the tridentine reform. Following the humanistic principles promoted by Trent, the melodies were slightly modified, although generally keeping the main design of the original versions, still visible beneath the erasures and modifications. The setting of the liturgical elements was also forcibly modified; in this case, however, it is quite impossible to see the original layer. Therefore, for the entries "Tradition" and "Use" above, we indicate "Roman (post-Tridentine)". The flyleaf of the front cover is a fragment from a Temporal Antiphoner (15th century) with part of the Trinity antiphon "Deum laudemus verum". The flyleaf of the back cover is a bifolio fragment from a Gradual (16th century), which includes the following chants for the fourth week in Lent: Gradual verse "Ut quid domine recessisti", Tract (no music) "Adjuva nos" and the beginning of the Offertory "Benedicite gentes dominum".
References

HIDALGO, Rosario Marchena, “La iluminación en Sevilla a lo largo del siglo XV”, Laboratorio de Arte, 20 (2007), pp. 9-30; Idem, Las miniaturas de los libros de coro de la Catedral de Sevilla: el siglo XVI, Sevilha: Universidad de Sevilla e Fundación Focus – Abengoa, 1998.

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