P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0009

Archive
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Shelfmark
MM 0009
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0009

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
mid 16th century [c.1545-c.1550]
Contents
1 Benedicamus domino; 2 Canticles; 3 Hymns; 1 Te Deum; 3 Lamentations; 6 Masses; 3 Marian antiphons; 9 Mass Propers + 10 Alleluias; 2 Responses (=40)
Type of script
Late Gothic
Type of notation
Mensural (white)
Decoration

Illuminated initials, fols 001v-002, 018v, 034v-35. Decorated ink/ illuminated initials, fols 035v-040v, 049v-051, 055 (Richafort Mass); fols 068v-069, 077v-082, 128v-131, 134v-135, 143v-147, 148v-149, 151v-152, 168v

Inscriptions
Voice names added, fols 027v-028. 'O genitrix / Richafort', fols 034v-035. 'Contra Alta / Do pregador Tiple, fols 104v-105: 'De Buxel', fol. 106; 'de d. heliodoro, fol. 107; 'de moram', fol.108; 'Vasco Pirez', fol. 109; Sexta antigua', fol.110; 'Octaua antigua', fol.111; 'Alleluya' / de dom Frãcisco', fol. 142v-143
Material
Paper
Condition of document

Damaged.

Page layout

Choirbook format. 560 x 418 mm

Foliation/Pagination

ii + 168 + ii; an unnumbered folio (not original) bound between fols. 004 and 006; another between fols. 012 and 013

Gathering

Unclear. Foliation and gathering structure disrupted, especially with rebinding process; some folios removed

Watermarks
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 P-Cug MM 32 (paper 3) and P-Cug MM 12 (fol. 037) (cf Rees 1995, pp. 370-71, 388-89)
Bindings

Old, but not original, covers of light brown light-tooled leather added when MS rebound c. 1937-41

Remarks
Original but incomplete index at front (see initial guardleaf, fol. 3v). Original foliation, fols 001-004, 006-158 added by same scribe as index. Three scribal hands evident (see analysis in Rees 1995, p. 179). Some scribal concordances with P-Cug MM 12. Modern pencil foliation, fols 001-008, and on the 8 fols after fol. 158. Modern pencil foliation applied irregularly on fols 001-013
References

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)

Description author/s
Bernadette Nelson