P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 009
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).
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.
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.
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)