P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-006
P-VV A.M. D-006
Proprium de Sanctis (June 24th to Christmas); Commune Sanctorum. Fol 1v Asperges; fol. 2v Eve of John the Baptist; 10r Eve of Peter and Paul; 25v Anne, Mother of Mary; 31v Finding of Stephen's relics (First Martyr); 36r Transfiguration of Jesus; 42v Laurence, Martyr; 47v Assumption of Mary; 55v Holy Cross Day (Exaltation of the Cross); 72r All Saints' Day; 87r The Expectation of Mary. Fols. 90-164 Commune Sanctorum; fol. 164v Dedicatio; fols. 169v-181v Missae Beatae Mariae Virginis; fol. 181v Missa de Passione Domini; fol. 187v Missa de Angelo Custode. On the guard-leaf, later hand wrote the mass for Saint Ignatius of Loyola (introitus and communio)
Initials in red and black. The initials for some important feasts have special decoration, with blue and golden ink.
Fol. 1r: «Liber 2. [secundus] Missarum de Sãctis / a vig[ilia] S. Joãnis Bapt[ista] / usque ad vig[ilia] Natiuitat[is] / Domi]ni exclusiue iuxta Missale / Romanu[m] auctoritate / Clementis 8 / recognitu[m]. / Anno D[omi]ni 1621.»
Very good.
578x376 mm. Most of the folios have 6 staves
Original foliation in red ink Arabic numerals. 194 fols + 4 initial guard leaves and 6 final guard leaves (all the guard leaves are in paper).
Leather over boards; reinforced corners and center with decorated golden iron.
ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Biblioteca do Palácio Real de Vila Viçosa (Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989).