P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-010

Archive
P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real
Shelfmark
A.M. D-010
Siglum

P-VV A.M. D-010

Source type
Gradual
Category
monophony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Date
17th century (first half)
Contents
Proprium de Tempore of the more significant feasts of Eastertide. Fol. 1v Vidi aquam; fol. 2v Easter Sunday; fol. 8v week after Easter Sunday; 30r Octave of Easter ("Dominica in Albis"); 33r Ascension Thursday; 36v Sunday after Ascension; 39v Eve of Pentecost; 46v Pentecost Sunday; 53v Weekdays after Pentecost; fols. 57v sqq. Ember Day of Pentecost (Wednesday; Friday; Saturday); fol. 69r: Trinity Sunday; fol. 73 r Corpus Christi (only from the Introit verse, because fol. 72 is missing).
Type of script
Humanistic
Type of notation
Square
Decoration

Initials in red and black. The initials of the more important feasts have special decoration: fol. 1v, V[idi]; fol. 3r, R[esurrexi]; fol. 30v, Q[uasi]; fol. 33v, V[iri]; fol. 47r, S[piritus].

Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Good.

Page layout

Front cover: 584x378 mm. Fol. 4r: 567x367 mm. Most of the folios have 6 staves.

Foliation/Pagination

Original foliation in red ink Arabic numerals. 81 folios; fols. 5 and 73 are missing, and at the end more folios are also missing: the last chant, Of. Sacerdotes Domini, for the feast of Corpus Christi, is incomplete, and the Communio is missing.

Bindings

Leather over boards; there are signs of the reinforced corners and center with iron, now missing.

References

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

Description author/s
Alberto Medina de Seiça
Indexed by
Alberto Medina de Seiça
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