Gradual (fragmento)

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PT/AMAP/COL/MM/C-1206

Gradual (fragmento)

Arquivo Municipal Alfredo Pimenta

1200

1200

1 fragmento

Category: monophonyContents: Chants for the Rogation days before Ascension Thursday, and for the periodfrom Pentecost to Trinity Sunday. Very interesting fragment, it contains chants that donot belong to the standard Gregorian repertory and which reflect a local tradition. Thecontents partly coincide with the texts in the Braga Missal of 1498. Parallels can be foundbetween the rite for the Rogations in this fragment and the version of the GaillacGradual, similar to Braga.Condition of document: Damaged. The two pages of this bifolium are not consecutive.The fragment is mutilated/torn along the borders, especially at the bottom. Two stickerson f. Av, the bigger one covers part of the chant. The text is: "(N. 1) Procuratorio. S.João de [...] 1576 a 1577. Lembranças curiosas de 1577 a 1580". The second librarysticker shows a probably ancient shelf-mark "1648 [...]". Other reference written in ink:A-5-2-149 (also on Ar, without the first letter). Holes are in correspondence to thecentral folder of the bifolium. Set of pricks along the vertical external border of Ar, Bv.The folders indicate that the fragment was used as a book cover. Wrinkles and spots ofhumidity.Foliation/Pagination: The original foliation is lost, traces of it can be found at the topof f. Bv; however one can read many references with roman numerals to the pages wherethe chant written as incipit could be found complete.Page layout: f. A: c. 250 x c. 270, f. B (Non uos): c. 235 x c. 270.Type of script: Transitional (Protogothic)Type of notation: Aquitanian (Portuguese variety)Decoration: Very simple decoration. Plain initials in red and blue. Display script in red.Text and notation in black. The notation is written around a red line, a later hand added aletter at the beginning of each chant which represents the pitch of the red line.