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

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P-EVp Pasta 3, doc. 001

Source type
Antiphoner
Subcategory of source
Temporal antiphoner
Category
monophony
Completeness
fragment
Document type
manuscript
Date
c. 1300
Cursus
unknown
Contents

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

Type of script
Gothic
Type of notation
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
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).
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
Material
Parchment
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.

Page layout

Eight lines of text and music.

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