P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. D-001

Archive
P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real
Shelfmark
A.M. D-001
Siglum

P-VV A.M. D-001

Source type
Antiphoner
Category
monophony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Date
17th century
Cursus
Secular
Contents
Sanctorale (fols. 1v-88v); Temporale (fols. 88v-132r); Antiphons for the following feasts: Angeli Custodes, S. Elisabeth, N. S. de Monte Carmelo, Exultationes B. Marie Virginis, S. Jorge, and Sanctisimi Nominis Jesu (fols. 132v-141v).
Type of script
Late Gothic
Type of notation
Square
Description of the notation

Square notation over a 5-line red staff with C and F clefs. Semi-mensural notation in the invitatory (fol. 7v).

Decoration

Red, and blue flourished initials. Black cadelled initials.

Inscriptions
The initial guard-leaf, 1r, possibly reads "Joze P J", and "Livor (?) nosso ja com [?]".
Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Good condition. Last parchment folio mutilated. Binding damaged with signs of use. Trimmed folios with loss of contents.

Page layout

456 x 336 mm; text written in one column.

Foliation/Pagination

Old, but not original foliation in Arabic numerals from 1 to 141. Folio 90 is missing.

Bindings

Tooled leather over wooden boards; brass furniture.

Remarks
Index added on initial guard-leaf, 2. Some feasts were added, in black ink, from the verso of the last parchment folio through the final guard-leafs.
References

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

Description author/s
Zuelma Chaves