P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0217A

MM 217 is comprised of gatherings from two partbooks of two distinct sets of part books: MM 217A (bassus partbook) and MM 217B (cantus partbook). No other books from either set have yet been located. MM 217A is comprised of two gatherings from a bassus partbook: MM 217Ai and MM 217Aii. These are numbered consecutively on PEM (fols 001r-016v), but in two series in Rees (1995). In PEM, the first gathering consists of fols 001r-004v; the second gathering, fols 005r-016v. The majority of works are unica, and so the number of voice parts for many of the items is not known; this is an important source for music by Aires Fernandes. The cover of MM 217B is a loose bifolio bearing the inscription 'Da livr(ari)a do Noviciado de s(an)ta Cruz de Coimbra', which is nearly identical to an inscription at the beginning of P-Cug MM 44. This suggests that this source once belonged to the novices' house at the Monastery of Santa Cruz, as did MM 44 (see Rees (1995), 305)