Portuguese Early Music Database (PEM)

Original ink foliation (illegible where folios have suffered corrosion), from f. 7r. Folios 1-6, 17, 29, 42, most of f.43 are missing (cf Rees 1995, p. 205). Last original fol. found in box of fragments by Rees. Modern pencil foliation, 1-14, 14-33, 35-62; last folio unnumbered. Two men responsible for compilation of manuscript who closely collaborated (cf Rees 1995, p.208). Scribal work suggests that some of the music might have been composed by Pedro de Cristo; this is also suggested by stylistic analysis of the pieces. Text of second Passion (St Matthew) setting (f.43r seq.) written in red-brown ink. Indexation in PEM is from Rees's reconstruction of Inventory based on the original ordering of folios, and not according to modern sequence and folio numeration. (In its current form, a number of folios are in wrong positions, and sections of manuscript have become separated.)