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PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017 UIDB/00749/2020 UIDP/00749/2020 DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0070 In recent decades the medieval liturgy has attracted growing scholarly attention as an area with great potential for yielding a wealth of information at a number of levels of historical research. Where the Cistercian liturgy is concerned, due to a preoccupation with uniformity of practice across the Order, investigation not only relies on analysis of the surviving manuscripts but also on scrutiny of the legislation produced by the Cistercian General Chapter which was convened annually from the first half of the twelfth century. This paper examines some liturgical books, and books supplementary to the liturgy, which survive from the library of the Monastery of Alcobaça, comprising different sources that connect text with performance. The main goal is, through an analysis to different liturgical books, recover (partially) gestures, performances and prayers and use these sources to study and contextualize liturgical identity of this Cistercian Monastery. publishersversion published

O presente artigo pretende analisar quatro códices litúrgicos originários do scriptorium do Mosteiro de Alcobaça, copiados entre meados do século XV e o século XVII, nomeadamente ao nível da inserção de adições textuais relativas a rituais próprios de comunidades femininas. É nossa intenção, por um lado, perceber e contextualizar a existência e os usos dados a essas adições e, por outro, compreender de que modo as referidas adições permitem um melhor conhecimento dos mosteiros cistercienses femininos e da forma pela qual o Mosteiro de Alcobaça exerce a sua jurisdição sobre os mesmos nesse período., This article concerns four liturgical codices copied in the scriptorium of the Monastery of Alcobaça between the mid-fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The late textual additions that concern rituals specific to Cistercian nunneries will be examined with the aim of understanding the uses of such additions in their context, and of determining their impact on our knowledge of female Cistercian monasteries and on Alcobaça’s jurisdiction over the women under its wing during this period.