P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0230 + MM 0231 + MM 0161

Three partbooks from a set of four. MM 230 is the superius book; MM 231 the altus; and MM 161 the tenor. The bassus book is missing; the three surviving books are complete. Three, or possibly four scribes worked on this set of manuscripts. The main scribe used only the recto side of folios, or the recto and the preceding verso when two voices of the same piece were to be contained in one book; the second scribe mostly used the many versos left blank by the main copyist; the third scribe copied only one piece, Dum transisset Sabbatum; the chorus Ecce Deus verus fallentes seems to have been copied by a fourth scribe.

Some, if not all of the music contained in this set of partbooks might be the work of Francisco de Santa Maria (d. 1597), not only because of the many concordances with P-Cug MM 70 (which contains ascriptions to no other composer), but also due to stylistic considerations (see REES 1995, pp. 317-18, 323).

The index of musical items follows the order in which they occur in the superius partbook (MM 230); items not found in that book appear at the end of the list.

NOTE: The three partbooks have new shelfmarks. MM 230 is now MM 231; MM 231 is now MM 231 A; and MM 161 is now MM 231 B.