P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 1063 (65)

Archive: 
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Siglum: 
P-Cug MM 1063 (65)
Shelfmark: 
MM 1063 (65)
Source type: 
Hymnal
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
fragment
Document type: 
manuscript
Date: 
15th cent.
Type of notation: 
Mensural (black)
Type of script: 
Gothic
Contents (feasts): 
Visitatio Mariae
Material: 
Parchment
Contents: 

Recto of right-side fragment: One notated hymn in mensural notation.
Verso of same fragment: texts of 2 hymns.

Page layout: 
Dimensions of the document as it stands: 215 x 380 mm. In relation to the musical fragment: one column, four lines of text and music with faded red (?) ink, c-clef and mensuration sign.
Condition of document: 
Poor overall. The document actually consists of two fragments of different manuscripts (a hymnal and a breviary) glued together. The fragment with musical notation is in worse condition than the one without it, with ink badly faded and a major tear on one side.
Inscriptions: 

Recto of notated fragment: on top left, "38" in pencil; three stickers, the first mutilated carrying an illegible text; the others, "1866"; "manuscripto". Late ink addition, partly illegible, ending "ADD frcº Soario". There is further reference, according to notes taken in 1992 by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, to the "Tractatus de virtute fideii D.D. Fr[ancis]ci Soarii è Societate Iesu 1609", first volume of the Opus de virtute et statu religionis by Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617), the book in which this fragment was used as a cover or binding material.

Remarks: 

The fact that this book-cover was made out of two unrelated manuscript fragments both carrying Marian hymns may or not be a coincidence.

Description of the notation: 

Mensural, with minims, in duple meter (cut C).

Indexed by: 
Kristin Hoefener
Description author/s: 
Giulio Minniti
Kristin Hoefener
Manuel P. Ferreira
Project ID: 
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020