P-EVp (Évora) Biblioteca Pública Pasta 3, doc. 001

Archive: 
P-EVp (Évora) Biblioteca Pública
Siglum: 
P-EVp Pasta 3, doc. 001
Shelfmark: 
Pasta 3, doc. 001
Source type: 
Antiphoner
Subcategory of source: 
Temporal antiphoner
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
fragment
Document type: 
manuscript
Date: 
c. 1300
Type of notation: 
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Type of script: 
Gothic
Contents (feasts): 
Dom. de Passione
Hebd. de Passione
Material: 
Parchment
Cursus: 
unknown
Contents: 

Two night responsories for the Holy Week followed by Passion Sunday Lauds antiphons.
 

Page layout: 
Eight lines of text and music.
Condition of document: 
Fair. Exposed side (recto): ink slightly faded but generally readable, except for the centre of the page which served as the most exposed outer spine cover region. Non-exposed side (verso): overall good condition and easily readable.
Decoration: 
Taller initials in red and blue, with flourishes, and in sepia ink with filigree.
Inscriptions: 

In pencil by a 20th c. (?) librarian, on recto top-right corner (probably the identity of the book from whose binding this fragment was detached):
Orthodoxarum explicationum /Libri decem ... / por Diogo Paiva de Andrade - Venezia, 1564

Remarks: 

The responsory verse Retribuentes mihi is of some interest for its rarity, as it is only found elsewhere in Toledo 44.1 and P-BR Ms 032 (NB: the 3rd mode attributed in Cantus Database to Toledo 44.1 is wrong, the melody being the same as in this fragment and in the Braga manuscript). 

Description of the notation: 

Aquitanian notation of the Portuguese variety. Clearly recognizable lozenges consistently indicate the position of the semitones.
A later hand wrote letter-clefs on staves at the beginning of each chant, as well as vertical lines across portions of the music (the latter barely visible on the recto side of the folio).

Indexed by: 
Giulio Minniti
Description author/s: 
Giulio Minniti
Project ID: 
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020