P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0070
P-Cug MM 0070
Alleluia (6), Canticles (3), Choruses (9), Hymns (3), Invitatories (1), Lamentations (3), Masses (1), Motets (62), Responsories (1) (= 89)
Some gold and red decorative initials.
Good overall.
Oblong partbook format. 132 x 198 mm
i + 109 + i folios. Original ink foliation, fols 001-109; later red ink foliation, last two folios
Difficult to determine gathering structure because of tight binding
Modern card covers.
This is a cantus partbook from an original set of presumably five. None of the other partbooks have yet been located. Both sides of the front flyleaf have a 'tabula' arranged alphabetically by incipit. Some of the motet texts and feasts observed are particularly connected with devotions at the monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra, or in Portugal (cf Rees 1995, pp. 302-3). Fols. 91v-95v copied by a different scribe.
REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra (New York & London, Garland, 1995), pp. 297-304