FR. MANUEL POUSÃO - C. 1593-1683 A 17th century Portuguese Passion Music Book POUSÃO, Frei Manuel, O.S.A.- LIBER | PASSIONUM, | ET EORUM | QUÆ A DOMINICA PALMARUM, | usque ad Sabbatum Sanctum cantari solent. | AVCTORE | P. FR. EMMANUELE POUZAM, | ORDINIS EREMITARUM S. AUGUSTINI, | Provinciæ Lusitaniæ. | PRIMA EDITIO.- Lugduni: Ex Typographia Petri Guillimin, Sumptibus Joannis à Costa, & Didaci Suarez, 1675.- 162 p.: notação musical; 36 cm.- E. According to Barbosa Machado, Fr. Manuel Pousão (1593-1683), was a native of Alandroal and professed at the Convent of Graça, Lisbon, of the Order of St. Augustine, where he was Master of the Chapel. The edition, printed in Lyon for unknown reasons, consists of 20 notebooks (A-T4, V5), a cover sheet and 80 sheets with traditional square black musical notation on five-line rows in red. An up-to-date version of previous Plainsongs, such as the Passionnaire of Fr. Estêvão, printed in Lisbon in 1595, introduces new melodic forms, reducing the vocalizations of great extension, of Byzantine expression. In this regard, one should read "The Passion Song in the 16th and 17th Centuries: the Portuguese Singularity", by José Maria Pedrosa Cardoso, Coimbra, 2006 (5.1.4., P. 149 et seq.), from where part of the elements were collected for the present discription. Ownership manuscript, on the title page: From the Convent of Graça of Torres-vedras. Trimmed specimen, slightly handled and with some acidity. Entire calf binding of the time, slightly fatigued, to which the super-libros of the House of Palmela, on both planes, were added in the 19th century. Vieira, II, p. 230.