P-Cua (Coimbra) Arquivo Distrital e da Universidade IV-3ª Gav. 44 (16)

Shelfmark
IV-3ª Gav. 44 (16)
Siglum

P-Cua IV-3ª Gav. 44 (16)

Source type
Category
Completeness
Date
c. 1400
Type of script
Decoration

Red and blue capitals of different size and elaboration relative to the liturgical placement of the text they accompany.

Inscriptions
Recto, right margin, and verso, left margin, penciled shelf-mark: INV./BOL./ 96 (42) ; IV 3ª S. Gv. 44 (16). Library stamps.
Material
Condition of document

Single leaf fragment in very poor condition. Irregular and uneven borders; folds and creases across the surface. Exposed side (recto) hardly readable, with the ink having vanished in many points. Sizeable hole in the middle of the recto left column.

Page layout

c. 485 x c. 365 mm. Two columns, each with 10 lines of text and music, c. 410 x c. 120 mm.

Foliation/Pagination

Original roman foliation at the top of the recto: xxii.

Remarks
Together with P-Cua IV-3ª Gav. 44 (17) and (18), this fragment is one of three leaves dismantled from the same lost antiphonary: evidences for their common source are the identity, among others, of: (1) textual and musical ductus (especially of more complex shapes such as 'a', rising liquescences, quilisma ...); (2) decorations (filling coloured lines inside of bigger capitals, dots at the extremities of serifs); (3) occasional red-line boxings for rubrics, and so forth... Fragments 17 and 18, and possibly this one as well, were used as a cover in the same notebook belonging to the notary António Martins in the late 16th century.
Description author/s
Project ID
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020
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