P-VV (Vila Viçosa) Biblioteca do Palácio Real A.M. A-002

Good. Paper shows some damp stains, also some wearing of the fore-edge bottom corners due to use. Fragile folios reinforced with glued-on paper strips, most of them on the bottom edge. The binding, though robust and in good condition, shows signs of some wear on its surface, with occasional incisions, scratches, damp stains and leather deterioration

Page layout

Choirbook format. 431 x 290 mm

Foliation/Pagination

120 fols.

Gathering

60 gatherings of 2 folios each

Watermarks

‘S P’, 24x18 mm. Corner watermark composed of two ligated capital letters (“S” and “P”), recurring throughout the whole book. Probable Genoese origin, 18th-century (La Rue, 2001, 334). Watermark identical to the drawing in https://www.wasserzeichen-online.de/wzis/detailansicht.php?id=140440

Bindings

Brown calf leather over boards. Blind-tooled concentric outer and inner frames, with phytomorphic motifs. Small fleurons on the outer corners of the central panel. Furnished with unadorned metallic cornerpieces and centrepiece. Vestiges of clasps and their fittings, now lost

Remarks

Copied by a single hand. No apparent match with any other hand of the Vila Viçosa polyphonic choirbooks. Handwriting points to the early 18th century, a dating hypothesis also corroborated by the paper’s watermark

References

JOAQUIM, Manuel, Vinte livros de música polifónica do Paço Ducal de Vila Viçosa (Lisbon: Fundação da Casa de Bragança, 1953) [= Joaquim, Vinte livros, 1953], pp. 87-94 (Livro n.º 8) ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Biblioteca do Palácio Real de Vila Viçosa: Catálogo dos Fundos Musicales (Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1973) [= Alegria, Catálogo, 1989], pp. 11-13 (A. Livros de music religiosa manuscrita, no. 2) RYAN, Michael, ‘The Manuscript Vila Viçosa, Alegria 2 (Joaquim 8): An eighteenth century compilation in honour of João IV?’, Revista Portuguese de Musicologia 9 (1999), pp. 25-36 LA RUE, Jan. “Watermarks and Musicology.” The Journal of Musicology 18/2 (2001), 313-343 RYAN, Michael. Music in the Chapel of the Dukes of Bragança, Vila Viçosa. Tese de doutoramento, University of London, 2001 Museu-Biblioteca da Casa de Bragança, Vila Viçosa. Catálogo do Arquivo Musical (pdf), Secção A

Description author/s

Nuno de Mendonça Raimundo

Indexed by

Nuno de Mendonça Raimundo

Reviewed by

Bernadette Nelson

Musical Items

Displaying 1 - 20 of 26

Folio	Seq	Incipit	Feast	Occasion	Genre	Composer
001v-006r	001	Donec ponam (Dixit Dominus, tone 1)		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
006v-012r	001	Magna opera (Confitebor tibi, tone 2)		V	PS
012v-017r	001	Potens in terra (Beatus vir, tone 3)		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
017v-022r	001	Sit nomen Domini (Laudate pueri, tone 4)		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
022v-024r	001	Quoniam confirmata est (Laudate Dominum, tone 5)		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
024v-029r	001	Donec ponam (Dixit Dominus, tone 1)		V	PS	Ceballos, Rodrigo de
029v-035r	001	Magna opera (Confitebor tibi, tone 7)		V	PS	Ceballos, Rodrigo de
035v-040r	001	Potens in terra (Beatus vir, tone 3)		V	PS	Pinheiro, António
040v-045r	001	Sit nomen Domini (Laudate pueri, tone 8)		V	PS	Ceballos, Rodrigo de
045v-047r	001	Quoniam confirmata est (Laudate Dominum, tone 4)		V	PS	Aliseda, Santos de
047v-052r	001	Stantes errant pedes (Laetatus sum, tone 7)		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
052v-056r	001	Nisi Dominus custodierit (Nisi Dominus aedificaverit,		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
056v-061r	001	Quoniam confortavit (Lauda Jerusalem, tone 8)		V	PS	Ceballos, Rodrigo de
061v-066r	001	Ego dixi (Credidi, tone 5)		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
066v-070r	001	Labores manuum (Beati omnes, tone 4)		V	PS	Pinheiro, António
070v-075r	001	Quoniam confortavit (Lauda Jerusalem, tone 7)		V	PS	Navarro, Juan (i)
075v-080r	001	Fiant aures tuae (De profundis, tone 6)		V	PS	Pinheiro, António
080v-089r	001	Sicut juravit Domino (Memento Domine David,		V	PS	Guerrero, Francisco
089v-093r	001	Tunc replentum est (In convertendo, tone 3)		V	PS	Ceballos, Rodrigo de
093v-099r	001	Sumens illud (Ave maris stella)	De BMV	V	H	Ceballos, Rodrigo de

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