P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-008

Archive
P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real
Shelfmark
A.M. D-008
Siglum

P-VV A.M. D-008

Source type
Gradual
Subcategory of source
Temporal gradual
Category
monophony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Date
1622
Contents

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.

Type of script
Late Gothic
Type of notation
Square
Decoration

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].

Inscriptions

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.

Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Very good.

Page layout

576x377 mm. Most of the folios have 6 staves.

Foliation/Pagination

 177 fols. + 1 initial guard leaf and 1 final guard leaf. Original foliation in red ink Arabic numerals.

Bindings

Leather over boards; reinforced corners and center with decorated golden iron.

Remarks

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).

References

ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Biblioteca do Palácio Real de Vila Viçosa (Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989).

Description author/s
Alberto Medina de Seiça
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