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P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 003
Shelf-mark:
MM 003
Siglum:
P-Cug MM 003
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:
[c.1575]
Cursus:
unknown
Contents:
1 Hymn; 3 Lamentations; 3 Marian antiphons; 6 Masses (= 13)
Material:
paper
Condition of document:
Damaged. Original order of pieces disrupted with modern re-binding; several lost folios
Bindings:
Old covers of light-brown tooled leather over boards, added in c. 1537-1941
Foliation/Pagination:
ii + 84 + ii; original order of pieces disrupted with modern re-binding; several lost folios. Original ink foliation, 2-49, but interrupted: 28 originally unnumbered folios bound between fols 23 and 24. Modern pencil foliation from end of first section of original foliation onwards, 24-85.
Gathering structure:
Original form of book not possible to ascertain, as order of pieces disrupted with modern re-binding process (cf Rees 1995: 151)
Watermarks:
3 paper types; 2 watermarks. Mark on paper 1 very similar to Briquet #6291; mark on paper 2 similar to Briquet #1131 (cf Rees 1995: 368-69 & 384-85).
Page layout:
Choirbook format. 575 x 415 mm
Type of script:
Humanistic
Type of notation:
Mensural (white)
Decoration:
Main scribe added his own decorative initials in black or red ink. Illuminated intials for Mass ff.24v-25, 37, 40v-41 Title of Mass and composer's name in banderole (ff.24v-25). Elaborate designs for initials ff.41v-42.
Inscriptions and marks:
Two initials (f.30 and f.61v) incorporate date 1575
Remarks:
Manuscript mostly the work of a single scribe, with some inconsistencies in notational details. Possibly mainly autography manuscript of Dom Francisco de Santa Maria. A second scribe made use of blank folios left by main scribe at end of manuscript (f. 78-85) (cf Rees 1995: 151-53).
References:
REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, New York & London / Garland, 1995, pp. 149-53, 368-69 & 384-85.
Completed on:
2012-06-15
Submitted by Zuelma Duarte Chaves — Tue, 2011-11-22 00:40
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