P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-006

Archive
P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real
Shelfmark
A.M. D-006
Siglum

P-VV A.M. D-006

Source type
Gradual
Category
monophony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Date
1621
Contents

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)

Type of script
Late Gothic
Type of notation
Square
Decoration

Initials in red and black. The initials for some important feasts have special decoration, with blue and golden ink.

Inscriptions

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.»

Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Very good.

Page layout

578x376 mm. Most of the folios have 6 staves

Foliation/Pagination

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). 

Bindings

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

References

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

Description author/s
Alberto Medina de Seiça