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Three fragments from Lamego

1993; Sociedad Española de Musicología; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

0210-1459

Manuel Pedro Ramalho Ferreira,

Medieval Architecture and Archaeology

Portuguese liturgical books remain, generally speaking, incompletely and poorly catalogued and have never been described in either a syste matic or a trustworthy fashion, as Victor Leroquais did with most of the French codices and Jos? Janini with those in the Spanish libraries. Frag mentary manuscript sources are mostly un-catalogued and unidentified, despite the efforts of scholars like Antonio de Vasconcelos in the 1920s, Avelino Jesus da Costa and Solange Corbin in the 1940s, and a few other authors in more recent years. In this paper, I will add to the ever-grow ing list of Portuguese chant sources three fragments from Lamego, a small town a few miles south of the Douro river, mid-way between Opor to and the Spanish border. The diocese of Lamego was already in existence in 569. In the 700s, under the Moorish rule, there is memory of a Christian bishop, but none is known for most of the following century. The conquest of the town by Alfonso III of Asturias in 877 and the subsequent appointment of bi shop Branderico inaugurated a period of religious stability which lasted until the end of the tenth century, when Lamego was almost completely destroyed by Almanzor. It then became a military outpost of Al Anda lus. In 1057, the King of Le?n and Castile, Fernando el Magno, conquers the town; around 1070, his son Sancho, King of Castile, has the diocese restored; but the economic conditions of the area prove too unfavorable for a normal religious life; by the turn of the century the diocese of La mego is entrusted to the bishop of Coimbra. Finally, in 1147 at the la test, a new bishop, favored by the Portuguese King, Alfonso Henriques, is confirmed. For political reasons, Afonso was a strong advocate of the