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P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 018
Shelf-mark:
MM 018
Siglum:
P-Cug MM 018
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.1610-20]
Cursus:
unknown
Contents:
Antiphons (5), Canticles (3), Hymns (9), Invitatorium (1), Lesson (1), Marian antiphon (1), Masses (1), Mass sections (4), Motets (2), Passion (sections) (3), Psalms (20); Responds (3), Responsories (5); Misc. (1)
Material:
paper
Condition of document:
Generally good, but with some discolouration caused by dampness, and some ink bleed-through with loss of notes in central section due to ink corrosion (especially ff. 58-64)
Bindings:
Old (possibly original) soft covers of beige leather
Foliation/Pagination:
i + 131 + i
Gathering structure:
MS compiled as single project. Folios probably gathered and bound (even if loosely) before the music was copied. (cf Rees 1995, 199 & 200)
Watermarks:
2 paper types; 2 watermarks. Mark on paper 1 belongs to Briquet's Pèlerin type (cf Rees: 1995: 372 & 393)
Page layout:
Choirbook format. 473 x 375 mm
Type of script:
Modern
Type of notation:
Mensural (white)
Decoration:
Calligraphic initials (in red / black ink), ff. 1v-6r; 11v-12r; 16v-28r; 34v-39r; 52v-53r; 58v-64r; 82v-89r; 93v-94; 95v-100r; 104v-113r; 117r; 118v-122r. Boxed initials, f. 123v-124r.
Inscriptions and marks:
'Livro de diuersa musica do P.e Dom Pedro Conigo Regular de S.to Augustinho …' (f. 1r). 'cú quatuor voc Dóno Petor (f. 1v). 'cú quinque vocibus', in red ink (f. 5v). Names of voice parts in red ink (ff. 5v-7). 'In festo Corporis christi: psalmi'; 'Dóno Petro' and 'prim(us) tonus' next to intonation (in red ink) (f. 7v). Voice names in red ink, f. 8v. 'Terceiro' next to intonation (in red ink) (f. 11v). 'Quarto tom' next to intonation (in red ink) (f. 12v). 'Domini Petri' (f.16v). 'Dni Petri' (f. 20v). 'Dominica in ramis palmarum. Dóno Petro' (f.31r). 'feria tertia' (f.34v), 'Domni Petri. Can.S.+' (f.35r). 'Guerreiro' (f.38v). 'Responsso 2º Do Natal' (f.40v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.41r). 'Versso Para instrumentos' (f.41v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.42r); voice names on ff.41v-42r. 'Responsso 4º Do Natal' (f.42v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.43r), and voice names. 'Versso Pa instrumentos' (f.43v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.44r), and names of instrumental parts. 'Responsso 5º Do Natal' (f.44v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.45r), and voice names. 'Versso Pa instrumentos' (f.44v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.45r), and names of instrumental parts. 'Responsso 7º Do Natal' (f.46v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.47r), and voice names. 'Versso Pa instrumentos' (f.47v), 'Dom Pedro da Esperança' (f.48r), and names of instrumental parts. 'Octaui toni cú octo uocib(us). Chorus primus' (f.52v), 'Chor(us) 2(us) Dóno Petro Canónico' (in red ink) (f.53r). Voice names in red ink (ff.54v-58r). 'In festo Ascentionis dni. Ad nonam. Cú 4.voc.' (f.58v). 'Iº Psalmo' (f.60r), 'D. Gaspar' (f.61r). '2º Psalmo (f.55v), 'D. Pedro da esperança' (f.66r). '3º Psalmo' (f.67v), 'D. Pedro da esperança' (f.68r). 'Missa de Quadragessima A 4 (f.70v), 'Domnus Petrus ad spe' (f.71r), and voice names (headings repeated ff.71v-73r). 'In Dominica Passionis A.4.' (f.73v), 'Domnus Petrus ab spe' (f.74), and voice names. 'Tertius modus. Don(us) Petrus' (in red ink) (f.77v). Voice names in red ink ff. 79v-80r. 'Chor(us) 1(us) cú octo voccib(us) Dóno Petro. (f.82v), 'Chorus 2(us)' (f.83r), and voice names (in red ink). 'cú quinq(ue) vos' (f.83v)' and voice names in red ink (ff.83v-84r). 'Cum tribus Vocibus' (f.84v). 'Resposta a quatro' (f.85r); and voice names in red ink (ff.84v-85r). Voice names ff. 84v-85r. 'cú octo uoc. Chorus I(us). Petrus canonicus', 'chorus 2(us) (f.87r), and voice names in red ink. 'a sete Dóno Pedtro (f.93v) and voice names (ff.93v-95r). 'a 8º Dóno Petro (f.95v), 'a 8º' (f.96r), and voice names (ff.95v-96). 'Himnus. cú octo uocibus chor(us) I(us) (in red ink) (f.101v), 'Chorus 2(us)' (in red ink), 'Dóno Petro auctore' (in black ink) (f.102r), and voice names in red ink (ff.101v-104r). 'Dono Petro Canónico' (f.113v). 'In festo sanctas Trinitatis Dono Petro' (in red ink) (f.115v). 'In festo S. Joanis baptistae' (f.116v). 'Secundi toni Dono Petro auctore' (f.123r). 'Secúdi toni' (in red ink) (f.124v). 'Quinto modo' (in red ink) (f.126v). 'Secúdi toni' (in red ink) (f.128v). 'a cinquo reposta', with voice names in red ink (ff.130v-131r).
Remarks:
High degree of consistency in number, layout and dimensions of staves inidcates that MS compiled as single project, despite use of several different rastra (cf Rees 1995, 200). Double vertical-line borders in red ink on each page. It was originally copied by two scribes, who had also copied P-Cug MM 8. One of these was the composer Pedro de Cristo, who was the first scribe to work on this manuscript. He originally left gaps between pieces and groups of pieces which were later filled by other scribes (cf Rees 1995, 199-200). Modern pencil foliation, 1-131.
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. 195-200, 372 & 393
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]
Submitted by Bernadette Nelson — Mon, 2013-04-29 12:59
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