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P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 008
Shelf-mark:
MM 008
Siglum:
P-Cug MM 008
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.1610-1620]
Cursus:
unknown
Contents:
2 Antiphons; 1 Benedicamus domino; 10 Canticles; 1 Invitatory; 2 Lessons; 7 Psalms; 23 Responsories (Tenebrae) (=46)
Material:
paper
Condition of document:
Damaged in parts of both sections of manuscript: ff.53-63v (corroded); ff. 66-74, 87 (slightly corroded). Top part of manuscript of second section, has large damp patch, ff. 68-117.
Bindings:
Old but not original light-brown tooled leather over boards added in c. 1937-1941.
Foliation/Pagination:
iii + 117 + ii. Manuscript was copied in two distinct sections: ff.1-64; 65-117. Modern pencil foliation, 1-117, beginning after original flyleaf (i).
Gathering structure:
Details of gathering structure unclear.
Watermarks:
1 paper type related to MM 26 (paper 4); 1 watermark (cf Rees: 1995: 370 & 387).
Page layout:
Choirbook format. 558 x 405 mm.
Type of script:
Humanistic
Type of notation:
Mensural (white)
Decoration:
A few calligraphic initials.
Inscriptions and marks:
Latin voice names and instructions ff.1-64. Top of f. 66v: 'psalmi Sanctorum domni petri'. Voice names added ff. 77v-78, 83v-84, 86v, 93, 93v-94, 109v-110. Top of ff. 93v-94: 'Responsorium feriae quinta in caena Domini – Chorus secundus / Actor. Dóno Petro Chorus Primus'; similar inscriptions ff. 94, 95v, 96v, 97v, 98v, 99v, 100v, 112v-113.
Remarks:
Traces of gold(?) colouring to all three edges of folios, up to f. 51. Part of manuscript copied by Pedro de Cristo (see also MM 18, MM 33 and MM 36). Manuscript was copied in two distinct sections: ff.1-64; 65-117. Each section provided with margins and staves before music added; size of rastrum and system of indented staves different in each. It is posible that the two sections of the manuscript existed independently and were bound together later, although the paper used is of the same type in both sections.
References:
REES. Owen, “Newly Identifed Holograph Manuscripts from Late-Renaissance Portugal”, Early Music 22 (1994), pp. 261-77.
REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, New York & London / Garland, 1995, pp. 167-71, 370 & 387.
REES, Owen (ed.), Music by Pedro de Cristo: An Edition of the Motets from Coimbra Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, MM 33, Amsterdam: Harvard Academic Publishers, 1998 [Introduction includes list of works by Pedro de Cristo in surviving Portuguese sources]
Completed on:
2012-06-18
Submitted by Zuelma Duarte Chaves — Tue, 2011-11-22 16:00
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