P-EVp (Évora) Biblioteca Pública Pasta 3, doc. 003 + Pasta 3, doc. 004

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P-EVp (Évora) Biblioteca Pública
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Pasta 3, doc. 003 + Pasta 3, doc. 004
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P-EVp Pasta 3, doc. 003 + Pasta 3, doc. 004

Source type
Gradual
Subcategory of source
Temporal gradual
Category
monophony
Completeness
fragment
Document type
manuscript
Date
c. 1300
Type of script
Gothic
Type of notation
Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)
Description of the notation
Aquitanian notation of the Portuguese variety with red reference line. Lozenges regularly indicate the semitone but square notes may be slanted and thus sometimes not clearly distinct.
Decoration

Chant initials decorated in flourished red and blue. Other musical items decorated with bigger initials with the same sepia ink of text, sometimes red. Rubrics in red.

Inscriptions

On the top right of fol. Cr: "doc. 3" (in pencil); on the right margin, 17th century inscriptions: "1617 a 1624", plus illegible lines of text and accounting calculus.

On the top right of fol. Ar.: "doc. 4" (in pencil).

On fol. Br, on top: "Nº I - Grândola" (modern writing)
On fol. Bv.: several 17th c. inscriptions, almost completely illegible.  "De 1573 [...] ate 1587" can still be discerned.
These dates probably indicate the timeframe of accounting documents to which these bifolios were guard-leaves.

Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Fragment 004 (ff. A-B) poor: right side mutilated, ink in the exposed side readable with much difficulty. Inner side in good conditions, except for the loss of contents due to mutilation.
Fragment 003 (ff. C-D) poor: right side mutilated, ink in the exposed side ranges from completely faded out (top two lines) to readable with some difficulty (centre region).

Page layout

One column, nine lines of text and music per page.

Foliation/Pagination

The second bifolio in the archive (Doc. 004) was actually first in the gathering of the original manuscript. The original order was here restored.

Remarks

The strikingly decorated initials appearing on folios Av and Dr are particularly useful in confirming the two bifolio fragments were part of the same manuscript.

Description author/s
Giulio Minniti
Indexed by
Giulio Minniti
Manuel P. Ferreira
Project ID
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020
Reviewed by
Manuel P. Ferreira