P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0003

Archive
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Shelfmark
MM 0003
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0003

Source type
Polyphonic book
Subcategory of source
Choirbook
Category
polyphony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Origin
Coimbra, Mosteiro de Santa Cruz
Main place of use
Coimbra, Mosteiro de Santa Cruz
Provenance
Coimbra, Mosteiro de Santa Cruz
Date
[c.1575]
Contents

Hymns (1), Lamentations (3), Marian antiphons (3), Masses (6) (=13)

Type of script
Roman round
Type of notation
Mensural (white)
Decoration

Main scribe added his own decorative initials in black or red ink. Illuminated initials for Mass fols. 024v-025r, 037r, 040v-041r. Title of Mass and composer's name in banderole (fol. 24v). Elaborate designs for initials fols. 041v-042r

Inscriptions

Three initials (fols. 031r, 058v, and 062v) incorporate date '1575'

Material
Paper
Condition of document

Damaged. Original order of pieces disrupted with modern re-binding; at least two lost folios

Page layout

Choirbook format. 575 x 415 mm

Foliation/Pagination

ii + 84 + ii; original order of pieces disrupted with modern re-binding; missing fol. 001 and one folio before fol. 052. Original ink foliation, 002-049, but interrupted: 28 originally unnumbered folios bound between fols. 023 and 024. Modern pencil foliation from end of first section of original foliation onwards (fols. 024-085)

Gathering

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 and 384-85)
Bindings

Old covers of light-brown tooled leather over boards, added in c.1937-1941

Remarks

Manuscript mostly the work of a single scribe, with some inconsistencies in notational details. Possibly mainly autograph manuscript of Dom Francisco de Santa Maria. A second scribe made use of blank folios left by main scribe at end of manuscript (fols. 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, and 384-85

Description author/s
Bernadette Nelson
Indexed by
Bernadette Nelson
João Pedro d'Alvarenga
Project ID
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020
Reviewed by
Bernadette Nelson
João Pedro d'Alvarenga