P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0070

Archive
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Shelfmark
MM 0070
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0070

Source type
Polyphonic book
Subcategory of source
Partbook
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
[c.1570-c.1580]
Contents

Alleluia (6), Canticles (3), Choruses (9), Hymns (3), Invitatories (1), Lamentations (3), Masses (1), Motets (62), Responsories (1) (= 89)

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

Some gold and red decorative initials.

Material
Paper
Condition of document

Good overall.

Page layout

Oblong partbook format. 132 x 198 mm

Foliation/Pagination

i + 109 + i folios. Original ink foliation, fols 001-109; later red ink foliation, last two folios

Gathering

Difficult to determine gathering structure because of tight binding

Bindings

Modern card covers.

Remarks

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.

References

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

Description author/s
Bernadette Nelson
Indexed by
Eva Mathilde Ribeiro
Project ID
PTDC/ART-PER/0902/2020
Reviewed by
Bernadette Nelson
João Pedro d'Alvarenga