P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-008
P-VV A.M. D-008
Proprium de Tempore from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday; fol. 1v Ash Wednesday; fol. 16r 1st Sunday of Lent; fol. 30v Ember Day, Lent (Friday and Saturday); fol. 105r 5th Sunday of Lent (Passion Sunday); fol. 124v Palm Sunday; fol. 144r Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday); fol. 148r Good Friday; 165v Holy Saturday.
Initials in blue, red and black, with filigree designs on same or alternate colours. Some initials have special decoration: fol. 1v, E[xaudi]; fol. 6r, M[isereris]; fol. 125r, H[osanna]; fol. 128v, D[omine]; 144v, N[os].
Fol. 1r: «Liber Missarum a f[eria] 4 Cinerum / usque ad Saba[t]um Sãctu[m] in/clusiue, iuxta Missale / Romanu[m] auctoritate Clementis. 8. / recognitu[m]. / Anno D[omi]ni 1622.
Very good.
576x377 mm. Most of the folios have 6 staves.
177 fols. + 1 initial guard leaf and 1 final guard leaf. Original foliation in red ink Arabic numerals.
Leather over boards; reinforced corners and center with decorated golden iron.
On the first guard leaf, a later hand wrote the «Missa Septem Dolorum B. Virginis Mariae» (Introitus, Gradual, Offertorium, Communio, and Sequentia, the latter in white mensural notation).
ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Biblioteca do Palácio Real de Vila Viçosa (Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989).