P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0044

Shelfmark
MM 0044
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0044

Source type
Subcategory of source
Category
Document type
Date
1580s
Contents
Alleluias (12), Antiphons (8), Benedicamus domino (7), Canticles (6), Fabordões (14), Hymn (3), Litany (1), Marian antiphons (8), Masses (6), Mass sections (4), Psalms (29), Responses (5), Te Deum (1) (=104)
Type of notation
Decoration

Calligraphic initials.

Inscriptions

Front flyleaf recto has the names of five brothers of the monastery and the date 1662. First recto (by main scribe): ‘Da livr(ari)a do Noviciado de S(an)ta Cruz de Coimbra'.

Material
Condition of document

Fair. Many sections in very poor condition owing to ink corrosion

Page layout

Choirbook format. 335 x 227 mm

Foliation/Pagination

ii + 123 + i. Modern pencil foliation, 1-204

Gathering

Folios comprising P-Cug MM 44 were not originally assembled as a single unit. Each section of the MS was built up in stages. For complex history of compilation of source, cf Rees 1995, pp. 265-69

Bindings

New covers of light brown tooled leather (dating from time when manuscript was re-bound between 1937 and 1941)

Remarks

Folios missing between fol. 042 and fol. 043; fol. 198 and fol. 199. Parts of manuscript severely trimmed, leading to partial or complete loss of inscriptions. Further trimming occurred when the manuscript was rebound in modern times

References

REES, Owen (1995), Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra (New York & London: Garland), pp. 259-66

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