P-EVad (Évora) Arquivo Distrital Mús. Lit. Ms. nº11
Excerpts from the Gradual, mostly from the Sanctorale from Nov. 30 to the end of April (fols. 1-67); preceded, as is normal in Processionals, by the Asperges me (fol. 1r) and Vidi aquam (fol. 1v). Then a Kyriale (fols. 68-73) follows and finally, the Antiphoner (fols. 74-82) section. The latter contains some chants for Advent. There are also four initial paper guard-leaves. In the first three leaves a modern hand added some chants on the recto pages (the ink permeated the folios and the notation is visible also on the verso). Then, two sheets of parchment were interpolated before the beginning of the Gradual section; they contain a Responsory for the Guardian Angel. The responsory Justus ut palma was written on the final guard-leaf by a modern hand ("999o_final guard-leaf 1r).
It is possible to identify several text scribes, see for example scribe A (see fol. 57r), scribe B (see fol. 59v), scribe C (fol. 64v), scribe D (fol. 64v), scribe E (fol. 75v). This book was not included in the RISM Catalogue of processionals, prepared by Michel Huglo, because it had been identified by Alegria (1977) as an antiphoner. The calendar omits the saints typical of Portuguese local devotion, but includes instead Ildephonsus, Isidore, Thomas of Aquinas, and commemorates the octave of Agnes.
ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Biblioteca Pública de Évora – Catálogo dos Fundos Musicais, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1977, pp. 185-186.
Late Iberian version of square notation over five-line red staves.