P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 006

Shelfmark
MM 006
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0006

Source type
Subcategory of source
Category
Document type
Date
mid 16th century [c.1540-c.1555]
Contents

Polyphony: Alleluia (1), Benedicamus domino (2), Canticles (4), Credo (1), Fabordão (1) Marian antiphons (3+1 frag.), Mass (1), Mass propers (2), Psalms (7) (=22) Chant: Alleluias (7), Tract (1), Introits (3), Communions (2) (=13) Unidentified fragments (3)

Type of script
Type of notation
Decoration

Calligraphic or pen-work initials on fols 006r, 013v-014v, 16v (in red, tenor part), 021v-022r (alternating black and red), 025v (in red, tenor part), 026v (in red, tenor part), 040v, 042r (altus part), 042v (cantus part), 043v-044r, 045v, 049v, 051v, 053v-055r, 060v, 087r, 087v-088r, 088v (in red), 089v-091v; banderole initials on fols 028v-029r; small zoomorphic initial on fol. 007v (tenor part)

Inscriptions

No original inscriptions or marks.

Material
Condition of document

Damaged. Marks of exposure to water on the bottom half of all folios; ink corrosion on most folios (excepting fols 013-027)

Page layout

Choirbook format. 545 x 400-05 mm

Foliation/Pagination

ii + 92 + ii; modern pencil foliation 1-91; unnumbered folio between fols 069 and 070 now numbered 070A. Missing folios: at least 2 at the beginning of the manuscript; 3 between fols 055 and 056; and 1 more between fols 070 and 071

Gathering

Unclear. Original order of pieces disrupted with modern re-binding; structure of book concealed with binding process

Watermarks

4 Paper types; 3 watermarks, 1 watermark on paper 3 similar to marks on MM 37 and MM 44 (paper 8) (cf Rees 1995, pp. 159, 369 & 386)

Bindings

Covers of light-brown blind-tooled leather over boards. Manuscript rebound 1937-1941, obscuring its original structure. The manuscript had originally parchment covers

Remarks

Six original scribes; additions, mostly chant, by a variety of different scribes. One of the original six scribes also copied the chant book P-Cug MM 37. The formal type of notation and copying habits connect MM 6 with P-Cug MM 9 and MM 12. Luis Moran’s Magnificat at fols. 040v-045r apparently served as direct exemplar for P-Cug MM 32, fols. 075v-081r.

References

RIBEIRO, Mário de Sampayo, Os manuscritos musicais nos 6 e 12 da Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Achegas para a história da música em Portugal 5, Coimbra, 1941

REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, New York & London / Garland, 1995, pp. 155-60, 369 & 386

ALVARENGA, João Pedro d', 'A neglected anonymous Requiem mass of the early sixteenth century and its possible context', Musica Disciplina 57 (2012), pp. 154-89

C.M.M.E. Project (http://www.cmme.org/database/sources/90)

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