Category: monophony
Completeness: complete or nearly complete
Main place of use: Guimarães
Provenance: Colegiada de Guimarães
Date: c. 1600 - c. 1800
Cursus: Secular
Contents: ff. 1r-7v Missa votiva de Passione Domini nostri Jesu Christe, ff. 8r-12v Missa
votiva de Beata Maria, ff. 13r-16v In Vigilia Assumptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis, ff. 17r-
24v In Missa Votiva Nomine Jesu et beata Maria virgine, ff. 25r-30v De Beata Maria, ff.
31r-36v Pro defunctis. Sequentia, ff. 37r-41v Invitatorium quintus tonus, ff. 42r-44v
Missa in festo Angeli Custodi Regni, ff. 45r-51r [start of Antiphoner section] In festo
Sancti Joseph Sponsi Beatae Mariae Virginis, ff. 51v-53r In festo Sancti Torquati
Episcopus et Martiris, ff. 53r-55v In festo Sancti Antonii Confessoris, ff. 55v-61r In festo
Sancta Elisabeth Regina Portugaliae, ff. 61r-67v In festo Sancti Angeli Custodi Regni, f.
68 In festo Sancti Caetani Confessoris, ff. 69r-77r In festo Beatae Mariae de Monte
Carmelo, f. 77 In festo Gaudiorum Beatae Mariae, ff. 78r-80v Cathedra Petri, ff. 80v-81v
Conversio Pauli, ff. 81v-86r Petri et Pauli, ff. 86r-87v Vincula Petri, ff. 87v-96v In festo
Septem Dolorum Beatae Mariae Virginis, ff. 97r-103v In festo Sanctissimi Nominis Jesu,
ff. 104r-105r In festo Beatae Mariae de Monte Carmelo ex decretis 24 Septembris 1726,
ff. 105v-106v In festo Sancti Josephi a Copertino, ff. 107r-108v In festo Sancti Joachim
Confessoris et Patris Beatissimae Virginis Mariae
Condition of document: Good; some humidity and dirt.
Bindings: leather over boards
Foliation/Pagination: Arabic numbering from 1 to 104; one guard-leaf in the
beginning and two in the end, all unnumbered; two index folios, unnumbered, before
folio number 1; four folios, unnumbered, after folio number 104
Page layout: 1 col. 6 rl / 6 wl — 57-58<229-232>35-38 x 26-28<385-389>54-56 (fol.
2r); 1 col. 6 rl / 6 wl — 46-50<233-238>45-48 x 35-36<385-391>46-49 (fol. 51r); 1 col.
6 rl / 6 wl — ]52<222-224>52-55 x 35-36<387-392>45 (fol. 85r)
Type of script: Humanistic
Type of notation: Square
Decoration: Original decoration has initials in red, plain or simply decorated, and in
black, with decorations in the same colour; decorations in the later sections use capitals
and initials in red and/or blue, with filigrees in the same colours and purple
Remarks: The earlier layer of the book, from the early 17th century, which consists
mainly of votive masses, goes from the first folio up to folio 44v; a later hand, from the
18th century, starts a new quire on folio 45r and goes up to folio 51r, first, free page of
another quire; from folio 51v up to folio 87v the hand is from the late 17th century; from
folio 87v up to folio 104v, the hand is from the 18th century; from the last four
unnumbered folios before the end guarding-leafs, the first two are from the 19th century
and the last two are among the original folios of the book.
References: Eduardo d'Almeida, «S. Torcato (algumas notas dispersas)», Revista de
Guimarães, 33 (1923), pp. 261-327. Souvay, Charles. "St. Joachim." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 4 Jun. 2012.
