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o testemunho mais recuado que se conhece da liturgia seguida pelos sacerdotes e cavaleiros de avis, os &laquo;monges guerreiros&raquo; que, sob a observ&acirc;ncia de cister e na depend&ecirc;ncia espiritual de calatrava, protagonizaram a reconquista e a afirma&ccedil;&atilde;o do reino de portugal. o ordin&aacute;rio fixava a ordem do of&iacute;cio divino ao longo do ano lit&uacute;rgico, permitindo hoje reconstituir os modos pelos quais a ordem comungava da unidade da igreja de roma nos tempos medievos. a sua singularidade no panorama nacional &eacute; inequ&iacute;voca. escreve saul ant&oacute;nio gomes: &laquo;estamos perante um manuscrito &uacute;nico no panorama da hist&oacute;ria das ordens religiosas militares em portugal nos tempos medievos. &uacute;nico pelos seus conte&uacute;dos e &uacute;nico dada a sua absoluta raridade e antiguidade. um manuscrito, portanto, de excecional import&acirc;ncia patrimonial e hist&oacute;rica.&raquo; a dra. maria de bel&eacute;m roseira, conselheira das antigas ordens militares, sintetiza-o como &laquo;uma pe&ccedil;a singular da hist&oacute;ria de portugal&raquo;. o alcance hist&oacute;rico do documento excede o plano lit&uacute;rgico. a ordem de avis est&aacute; indissociavelmente ligada ao destino nacional: foi o seu mestre, d. jo&atilde;o, que as cortes de coimbra aclamaram rei de portugal em 1385, fundando a dinastia de avis \u2014 a casa de d. duarte, do infante d. henrique e dos pr&iacute;ncipes que abriram ao mundo a era das navega&ccedil;&otilde;es. este c&oacute;dice, anterior em oito d&eacute;cadas a esse momento fundador, documenta a vida espiritual da institui&ccedil;&atilde;o no seu tempo de plena afirma&ccedil;&atilde;o, quando, no in&iacute;cio do s&eacute;culo xiv, os freires de avis, encabe&ccedil;ados pelo mestre fr. fern&atilde;o rodrigues, negociavam junto do sumo pont&iacute;fice a renova&ccedil;&atilde;o dos seus h&aacute;bitos e observ&acirc;ncias. acresce que o c&oacute;dice conserva uma linha de proveni&ecirc;ncia cont&iacute;nua e documentada \u2014 raridade em manuscritos medievais portugueses em m&atilde;os particulares. guardado na livraria de uma casa da ordem, foi ali ainda anotado nos s&eacute;culos xvii e xviii, quando m&atilde;o seiscentista desenhou no frontisp&iacute;cio um cavaleiro de avis e copiou o colof&atilde;o do f&oacute;lio final entretanto perdido; passou depois &agrave; posse de eduardo augusto xavier da cunha, ele pr&oacute;prio comendador da ordem de avis, permanecendo na sua descend&ecirc;ncia at&eacute; &agrave; integra&ccedil;&atilde;o na actual colec&ccedil;&atilde;o do dr. ant&oacute;nio da silva-ara&uacute;jo. o desenho do frontisp&iacute;cio, ainda que esbatido, merece nota: representa um cavaleiro a cavalo de espada erguida, acompanhado, ao que parece, de duas cabe&ccedil;as decepadas \u2014 composi&ccedil;&atilde;o que a dra. marta alexandre, directora do centro interpretativo da ordem de avis, aquando da apresenta&ccedil;&atilde;o do estudo supra, identificou como sendo a figura de giraldo, &laquo;o sem-pavor&raquo;, conquistador de &eacute;vora em 1165, protagonista das armas daquela mesma cidade e figura considerada pelos freires como fundacional, ainda que n&atilde;o de facto, da mil&iacute;cia de &eacute;vora. esta est&aacute; documentada apenas a partir de 1176, tr&ecirc;s anos ap&oacute;s a morte de giraldo, tendo-se instalado em avis depois de 1211 \u2014, pelo que o desenho vale como evoca&ccedil;&atilde;o retrospectiva do her&oacute;i fundador da cidade e cujas lend&aacute;rias ac&ccedil;&otilde;es militares dariam origem &agrave; mil&iacute;cia, ao gosto da historiografia seiscentista, e n&atilde;o como um mero retrato de um freire de avis. o desenho testemunha assim que, em seiscentos, o c&oacute;dice era j&aacute; guardado com respeito e como reserva de mem&oacute;ria identit&aacute;ria da ordem, e n&atilde;o como livro de uso. \n \n \n manuscritos medievais desta natureza tornaram-se de extrema raridade no mercado internacional, progressivamente absorvidos por institui&ccedil;&otilde;es p&uacute;blicas e privadas que os subtraem definitivamente ao com&eacute;rcio. em portugal, esp&eacute;cimes compar&aacute;veis \u2014 forais, livros de horas, c&oacute;dices lit&uacute;rgicos medievais \u2014 praticamente desapareceram dos cat&aacute;logos desde meados do s&eacute;culo passado. nenhum outro ordin&aacute;rio medieval de uma ordem militar portuguesa &eacute; conhecido em m&atilde;os particulares e nenhum resiste na ib&eacute;ria com esta antiguidade. \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n manuscrito lit&uacute;rgico sobre pergaminho, aparentemente de ovino, c. 300 mm &times; 200 mm, 22 f&oacute;lios com numera&ccedil;&atilde;o romana (i\u2013xxii) ao centro da margem de cabeceira, numera&ccedil;&atilde;o aparentemente quinhentista, evocando as que se encontram nos forais manuelinos do primeiro ter&ccedil;o do s&eacute;culo xvi. subsistem quatro cadernos \u2014 um quaterno (fls. i\u2013viiiv), um terno (fls. ix\u2013xivv) e dois b&iacute;nios (fls. xv\u2013xviii e xix\u2013xxi, este incompleto) \u2014 verificando-se a falta de f&oacute;lios entre o segundo e o terceiro cadernos. escrita g&oacute;tica a tinta castanho-escura, em coluna &uacute;nica regrada; rubricas a vermelho; iniciais filigranadas a vermelho e azul; f&oacute;lio inicial com cercadura ornamental a vermelho abrindo com o &laquo;in resurrectione domini ad missam introitus = intr&oacute;ito da missa da ressurrei&ccedil;&atilde;o&raquo;. colof&atilde;o com a data de 1303, lan&ccedil;ado em c&oacute;pia tardia no fl. xxii, aparentemente pela mesma m&atilde;o da folia&ccedil;&atilde;o. textos interrompidos nos fls. 19v e 20v\u201321 (of&iacute;cios da assun&ccedil;&atilde;o da virgem e das festas dos ap&oacute;stolos); of&iacute;cio da missa dos m&aacute;rtires (fls. 21\u201321v) igualmente incompleto. encaderna&ccedil;&atilde;o em pergaminho, tardia, com o t&iacute;tulo em letra moderna, talvez fini-seiscentista ou in&iacute;cios da cent&uacute;ria seguinte: &laquo;conventu ad ordinis militis ad avis. era mccciii&raquo;. no segundo f&oacute;lio, n&atilde;o numerado, servindo de frontisp&iacute;cio, desenho a tinta de m&atilde;o outrossim fini-seiscentista representando giraldo, &laquo;o sem pavor&raquo; a cavalo ostentando as dua cabe&ccedil;as mouras, sob o t&iacute;tulo &laquo;ordinarium ad oficium divinum&raquo;. \n \n \n  \n \n \n proveni&ecirc;ncia: livraria lit&uacute;rgica de uma das casas ou comendas da ordem de avis, onde permaneceu at&eacute; &agrave; &eacute;poca moderna, como atestam a encaderna&ccedil;&atilde;o em pergaminho com o t&iacute;tulo setecentista e o frontisp&iacute;cio seiscentista com a figura de giraldo, &laquo;o sem-pavor&raquo;. \u2014 eduardo augusto xavier da cunha (trancoso, 1854 \u2013 coimbra, 1921), engenheiro militar, deputado &agrave;s cortes e comendador da ordem militar de s. bento de avis; por descend&ecirc;ncia na fam&iacute;lia. \u2014 colec&ccedil;&atilde;o dr. ant&oacute;nio da silva-ara&uacute;jo, portugal, actual propriet&aacute;rio, que promoveu em regime de mecenato, no ano de 2020, o seu estudo e publica&ccedil;&atilde;o em fac-s&iacute;mile, numa edi&ccedil;&atilde;o de 250 exemplares de grande aparato gr&aacute;fico e que mereceu o alto patroc&iacute;nio da presid&ecirc;ncia da rep&uacute;blica portuguesa. \n \n \n  \n \n \n notas: a identifica&ccedil;&atilde;o do cavaleiro do frontisp&iacute;cio com giraldo, &laquo;o sem-pavor&raquo; pertence &agrave; dra. marta alexandre (directora do centro interpretativo da ordem de avis), comunicada oralmente aquando da apresenta&ccedil;&atilde;o do estudo e aqui publicada pela primeira vez. esta interpreta&ccedil;&atilde;o &eacute; acompanhada pelos especialistas da anno. saul ant&oacute;nio gomes descreve a figura, sem a identificar, como &laquo;um cavaleiro da ordem de avis&raquo;. \n \n \n a actual presid&ecirc;ncia da rep&uacute;blica, atrav&eacute;s da sua casa civil, considerou este manuscrito, a 3 de agosto de 2026, como &laquo;de grande import&acirc;ncia para a \n \n \n historiografia portuguesa da &eacute;poca e para a hist&oacute;ria da ordem militar de avis.&raquo; \n \n \n  \n \n \n esta pe&ccedil;a tem um \n  pre&ccedil;o de reserva . o sistema avisar&aacute; automaticamente os licitantes se o mesmo n&atilde;o for atingido. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n bibliografia: \n \n \n gomes, saul a. (2020). ordin&aacute;rio para o of&iacute;cio divino da ordem de avis de 1303. leiria. ed. de ant&oacute;nio da silva-ara&uacute;jo. (estudo monogr&aacute;fico e edi&ccedil;&atilde;o integral do c&oacute;dice, com pref&aacute;cio da dra. maria de bel&eacute;m roseira). \n \n \n \n \n \u2014 (2021). d. dinis e as ordens militares: algumas releituras. in ordens militares, identidade e mudan&ccedil;a, vol i. palmela. gesos. \n \n \n  \n \n \n abertura das ordens de compra: dia 21 de setembro de 2026.","en":"the oldest known document of its kind relating to the order of avis, the oldest portuguese military order.  \n \n  \n \n \n produced at the dawn of the fourteenth century, this \"treasure in vellum\" \u2014 in the words of professor saul ant&oacute;nio gomes, who devoted a monographic study to it \u2014 is the earliest known testimony of the liturgy followed by the priests and knights of avis, the \"warrior monks\" who, under the observance of c&icirc;teaux and the spiritual dependence of calatrava, played a leading role in the reconquista and the affirmation of the kingdom of portugal. the ordinary set out the order of the divine office throughout the liturgical year, allowing us today to reconstruct the ways in which the order partook of the unity of the church of rome in medieval times. its singularity within the national panorama is unequivocal. saul ant&oacute;nio gomes writes: \"we are faced with a manuscript unique within the history of the military religious orders in portugal in medieval times. unique in its content, and unique given its absolute rarity and antiquity. a manuscript, therefore, of exceptional patrimonial and historical importance.\" dr maria de bel&eacute;m roseira, counsellor of the ancient military orders, sums it up as \"a singular piece of the history of portugal.\" \n \n \n the historical significance of the document extends beyond the liturgical sphere. the order of avis is inseparably bound to the nation's destiny: it was its master, d. jo&atilde;o, whom the cortes of coimbra acclaimed king of portugal in 1385, founding the house of avis \u2014 the house of d. duarte, of prince henry the navigator, and of the princes who opened the age of discovery to the world. this codex, predating that founding moment by eight decades, documents the spiritual life of the institution at its height, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, when the friars of avis, led by master fr. fern&atilde;o rodrigues, were negotiating with the supreme pontiff for the renewal of their habits and observances. \n \n \n furthermore, the codex retains a continuous and documented line of provenance \u2014 a rarity among medieval portuguese manuscripts in private hands. kept in the library of a house of the order, it was still being annotated there in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when a seventeenth-century hand drew a knight of avis on the frontispiece and copied the colophon from the final folio, since lost; it subsequently passed into the possession of eduardo augusto xavier da cunha, himself a commander of the order of avis, remaining within his descendants until its incorporation into the present-day collection of dr ant&oacute;nio da silva-ara&uacute;jo. \n \n \n the frontispiece drawing, though faded, merits note: it depicts a mounted knight with sword raised, accompanied, it would seem, by two severed heads \u2014 a composition which dr marta alexandre, director of the interpretative centre of the order of avis, identified, when presenting the above-mentioned study, as the figure of giraldo, \"the fearless\", conqueror of &eacute;vora in 1165, a protagonist of that city's coat of arms and a figure regarded by the friars as the founder \u2014 albeit not in fact \u2014 of the militia of &eacute;vora. the latter is documented only from 1176, three years after giraldo's death, having settled in avis after 1211 \u2014 so that the drawing stands as a retrospective evocation of the legendary founding hero of the city, whose military exploits were held, after the taste of seventeenth-century historiography, to have given rise to the militia, rather than as a mere portrait of a friar of avis. the drawing thus testifies that, by the seventeenth century, the codex was already being kept with reverence, as a repository of the order's identity and memory, rather than as a working book. \n \n \n medieval manuscripts of this nature have become exceedingly rare on the international market, progressively absorbed by public and private institutions that remove them permanently from trade. in portugal, comparable specimens \u2014 charters, books of hours, medieval liturgical codices \u2014 have all but disappeared from catalogues since the middle of the last century. no other medieval ordinary of a portuguese military order is known to survive in private hands, and none remains in the iberian peninsula of comparable antiquity. \n \n \n  \n \n \n liturgical manuscript on vellum, apparently of sheepskin, c. 300 mm &times; 200 mm, 22 leaves with roman numeration (i\u2013xxii) at the centre of the head margin, apparently sixteenth-century numeration, recalling that found in the manueline charters of the first third of the sixteenth century. four gatherings survive \u2014 a quaternion (fols. i\u2013viiiv), a ternion (fols. ix\u2013xivv) and two binions (fols. xv\u2013xviii and xix\u2013xxi, the latter incomplete) \u2014 with leaves missing between the second and third gatherings. gothic script in dark brown ink, in a single ruled column; rubrics in red; filigree initials in red and blue; opening leaf with an ornamental red border, beginning with the \"in resurrectione domini ad missam introitus = introit of the mass of the resurrection.\" colophon bearing the date 1303, entered in a later copy on fol. xxii, apparently by the same hand as the foliation. texts interrupted on fols. 19v and 20v\u201321 (offices of the assumption of the virgin and the feasts of the apostles); office of the mass of the martyrs (fols. 21\u201321v) likewise incomplete. vellum binding, of later date, with the title in a modern hand, perhaps late seventeenth or early eighteenth century: \"conventu ad ordinis militis ad avis. era mccciii.\" on the second, unnumbered leaf, serving as frontispiece, an ink drawing, likewise in a late seventeenth-century hand, depicting giraldo, \"the fearless, \" on horseback bearing the two moorish heads, beneath the title \"ordinarium ad oficium divinum.\" \n \n \n  \n \n \n provenance: the liturgical library of one of the houses or commanderies of the order of avis, where it remained until the modern era, as attested by the vellum binding with its eighteenth-century title and the seventeenth-century frontispiece bearing the figure of giraldo, \"the fearless.\" \u2014 eduardo augusto xavier da cunha (trancoso, 1854 \u2013 coimbra, 1921), military engineer, deputy to the cortes, and commander of the military order of st benedict of avis; by descent within the family. \u2014 collection of dr ant&oacute;nio da silva-ara&uacute;jo, portugal, present owner, who sponsored, in the year 2020, its study and publication in facsimile, in an edition of 250 copies of fine production, which was granted the high patronage of the president of the portuguese republic. \n \n \n  \n \n \n notes: the identification of the knight in the frontispiece with giraldo, \"the fearless, \" is due to dr marta alexandre (director of the interpretative centre of the order of avis), communicated orally at the presentation of the study and published here for the first time. this interpretation is shared by anno's specialists. saul ant&oacute;nio gomes describes the figure, without identifying him, as \"a knight of the order of avis.\" \n \n \n the current presidency of the portuguese republic, through its casa civil [civil household], considered this manuscript, on 3rd august 2026, to be \"of great importance to portuguese historiography of the period and to the history of the military order of avis.\" \n \n \n  \n \n \n this lot carries a \n  reserve price . the system will automatically notify bidders should this not be reached. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n bibliography: \n \n \n gomes, saul a. (2020). ordin&aacute;rio para o of&iacute;cio divino da ordem de avis de 1303. leiria. ed. ant&oacute;nio da silva-ara&uacute;jo. (monographic study and full edition of the codex, with a preface by dr maria de bel&eacute;m roseira). \n \n \n \n \n \u2014 (2021). d. dinis e as ordens militares: algumas releituras. in ordens militares, identidade e mudan&ccedil;a, vol i. palmela. gesos. 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