P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 025

Archive
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Shelfmark
MM 025
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0025

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
last third of 16th century
Contents

27 Tenebrae Responsories

Type of script
Humanistic
Type of notation
Mensural (white)
Decoration

Scribe added black ink initials, some calligraphic, but mostly simple Roman majuscules. Red & green intials, fols 07v-08r, possibly in a later hand

Inscriptions

Inscriptions appear on various folios next to the bass part, indicating modal position (cues for organist)

Material
Paper
Condition of document

Good

Page layout

Choirbook format; 424 x 280 mm

Foliation/Pagination

35 + i

Watermarks

3 paper types; 3 watermarks. Mark on paper 1 identical to mark 3 in P-Cug MM 33; mark 2 very similar to Briquet #4844, and identical to mark 6 in P-Cug MM 33 (cf Rees 1995: 373 & 394)

Bindings

Old (posibly original) soft cover of beige leather, with remains of leather ties

Remarks

Remains of original front flyleaf. Original numbering of pieces in brown ink; each of the three sets of Holy Week responsories received separate numeration. Modern pencil foliation, fols 1-19, 21-36. All three edges of folios have red colouring similar to that on P-Cug MM 26

References

REES, Owen (1995), Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra (New York & London / Garland), pp. 201-04, 373 & 394

Description author/s
Bernadette Nelson
Indexed by
Bernadette Nelson