P-Cmn (Coimbra) Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro PD 1131 (olim 2271 [Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro])

Archive
P-Cmn (Coimbra) Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro
Shelfmark
PD 1131 (olim 2271 [Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro])
Name of the source
Missae et Cantica
Siglum

P-Cmn 1131

Source type
Kyrial
Miscellany
Category
monophony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Provenance
Coimbra
Date
16th century
Contents
001v- Asperges me antiphon; 002r- Vidi aquam antiphon; 003v- Kyrie compositions; 012v- Gloria compositions; 021r Credo compositions; 040r- Sanctus compositions; 048v- Agnus dei compositions; ff. 052v- Readings from the Prophets (without music) ; 069v- Te deum; 073r- Te decet laus; 073v- Office antiphons for Our Lady
Type of script
Gothic
Type of notation
Square
Decoration

Inicials in red, black or blue with filigree designs in red or blue. Folios 001v, 003v; 012v; 021r; 040r; 048v; 053v with illuminations.

Material
Parchment
Condition of document

Good, some folios margins are cut. There are some water stains but these do not damage music or text.

Page layout

Fol. 2: c. c.50<330-344>66-67 x c. 40<c.510>c.70 mm. Fol. 34: c.50<347>64-68 x c.45<c.510>c.65. 1 column with 6 lines with music and text.

Foliation/Pagination

75 folios with arabic numbering in the bottom, some numbers can not be read because of the margins cuts.

Bindings

Leather over boards

Remarks
This manuscript is actually at the Paço dos Duques de Bragança in Guimarães. Most folios have erasures and corrections in the melody and text replacement . Some staves show erasures in the melody but no corresponding update, the text remaining alone.
References
MAGALHÃES, Eduardo; "Os livros de Cantochão dos séculos XVI e XVII do Museu de Alberto Sampaio" (Tese de mestrado, Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, 2001).
FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro (coord.), Harmonias do céu e da terra: A música nos manuscritos de Guimarães (séculos XII-XVII) / Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The music in the manuscripts of Guimarães (12th-17th centuries), Lisboa: CESEM, 2012, pp. 32-33.
Description author/s
Carla Crespo
Indexed by
Carla Crespo
Reviewed by
Elsa De Luca