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P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 009
Shelf-mark:
MM 009
Siglum:
P-Cug MM 009
Subcategory of book:
Polyphonic choirbook
Category:
polyphony
Completeness:
complete or nearly complete
Document type:
manuscript
Origin:
Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra
Main place of use:
Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra
Provenance:
Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra
Date:
mid 16th century [c.1545-c.1550]
Cursus:
unknown
Contents:
1 Benedicamus domino; 2 Canticles; 3 Hymns; 1 Te Deum; 3 Lamentations; 6 Masses; 3 Marian antiphons; 9 Mass Propers + 10 Alleluias; 2 Responses (=40)
Material:
paper
Condition of document:
Damaged
Bindings:
Old, but not original, covers of light brown light-tooled leather added when MS rebound c. 1937-41.
Foliation/Pagination:
ii + 168 + ii; an unnumbered folio (not original) bound between fols 4 and 6; another between fols 12 and 13.
Gathering structure:
Unclear. Foliation and gathering structure disrupted, especially with rebinding process; some folios removed.
Watermarks:
4 paper types; 4 watermarks. Mark on paper 1 almost identical to Briquet #760; mark on paper 2 almost identical to Briquet #6098. Papers 3 & 4 related to MM 32 (paper 3) and MM 12 (f.37) (cf Rees 1995: 370-71 & 388-89).
Page layout:
Choirbook format. 560 x 418 mm.
Type of script:
Late Gothic
Type of notation:
Mensural (white)
Decoration:
Illuminated initials, f. 1v-2; f.18v; 34v-35. Decorated ink/ illuminated initials, f.35v-40v, 49v-51 & 55 (Richafort Mass); f. 68v-69; 77v-82; 128v-131; 134v-135; 143v-147; 148v-149151v-152; 168v.
Inscriptions and marks:
Voice names added, f.27v-28. 'O genitrix / Richafort', f.34v-35. 'Contra Alta / Do pregador Tiple, f. 104v-105: 'De Buxel', f. 106; 'de d. heliodoro, f. 107; 'de moram', f.108; 'Vasco Pirez', f. 109; Sexta antigua', f.110; 'Octaua antigua', f.111; 'Alleluya' / de dom Frãcisco', f. 142v-143.
Remarks:
Original but incomplete index at front (see initial guardleaf, f.3v). Original foliation, ff.1-4, 6-158 added by same scribe as index. Three scribal hands evident (see analysis in Rees 1995: 179). Some scribal concordances with MM 12. Modern pencil foliation, 1-8, and on the 8 fols after fol. 158. Modern pencil foliation also applied irregularly, fols 1-13.
References:
REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, New York & London / Garland, 1995, pp. 173-83, 370-71 & 388-89
NELSON, Bernadette, 'A Polyphonic Hymn Cycle in Coimbra', in Pure Gold: Golden Age Sacred Music in the Iberian World. A Homage to Bruno Turner, eds T. Knighton and B. Nelson, Kassel: Reichenberger, 2011, pp. 167-205
C.M.M.E. Project (http://www.cmme.org/database/sources/129)
Submitted by Zuelma Duarte Chaves — Mon, 2011-11-21 20:21
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