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.
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).
