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

Archive: 
P-Cua (Coimbra) Arquivo Distrital e da Universidade
Siglum: 
P-Cua IV-3ª Gav. 44 (16)
Shelfmark: 
IV-3ª Gav. 44 (16)
Source type: 
Antiphoner
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
fragment
Date: 
c. 1400
Type of notation: 
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Type of script: 
Gothic
Contents (feasts): 
Agnetis
Material: 
Parchment
Foliation/Pagination: 
Original roman foliation at the top of the recto: xxii.
Page layout: 
c. 485 x c. 365 mm. Two columns, each with 10 lines of text and music, c. 410 x c. 120 mm.
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.
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.

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.

Completed on: 
2021-05-11
Indexed by: 
Elsa De Luca
Giulio Minniti
Description author/s: 
Elsa De Luca
Giulio Minniti
Reviewed by: 
Giulio Minniti
Project ID: 
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020