P-EVc (Évora) Arquivo da Sé Ms 002

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P-EVc (Évora) Arquivo da Sé
Shelfmark
Ms 002
Siglum

P-EVc Ms 002

Source type
Polyphonic book
Subcategory of source
Choirbook
Category
polyphony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Origin
Évora, Catedral
Main place of use
Évora, Catedral
Provenance
Évora, Catedral
Date
mid 18th century
Contents
2 Antiphons; 5 Masses (= 7)
Type of notation
Mensural (white)
Description of the notation
Stamped square notation
Decoration

Title page and Index page have elaborate borders in black and red ink.
Decorated (stamped) boxed intitals in black ink, with some red, at start of the antiphons and the main sections of the masses

Inscriptions
Title page (f. [i]r): Compendium / Missarum Quinque / Quadruplici Voce / Concinendarum / Cum Duobus Aspersoriis. / Authore / Joanne Petro Ludovico Praenestino / Sacrosanctae Basilicae Vaticanae / Mesochoro. / Serenissimo / Ac Potentissimo Lusitaniae Regi / D.D. Joanni Quinto / O.D.C. / Cassianus Lopez Navarro / in Catholici Regis Sacello / Succentor. This scribe was responsible for copying numerous choirbooks of Palestrina extant in Spain: see Rós Fabregas (2006), p. 368. See also PEM database: E-TUY (Tuy) Arquivo da Sé L I) List of contents (f. [ii] r): ‘INDEX / Aspersorium Per Annum, 1 / Missa Brevis, 10 / Missa Iste Confessor, 32 / Missa Aeterna Christi munera, 75 / Missa Emmendemus, 97 Titles of items given in Latin at top of each verso folio; composer's name in Latin heads each recto folio. Voice names provided on each opening.
Material
Paper
Condition of document

Good, though several loose folios, and binding is beginning to fall apart.
f. 5 bound in back-to-front

Page layout

Choirbook format. 540 x 350 mm

Foliation/Pagination

ii + 119. Folios numbered 1-119. Blank (numbered) folios separate each musical item

Bindings

Original brown leather over boards, with some gold tooled motifs; metal bosses, corners and clasps

Remarks
SCRIBE: Cassianus López Navarro (see above, and E-TUY 1, E-TUY 5). The contents of this MS correspond exactly with E-P 3 (Plasencia, Arch. del Catedral, MS 3). Chant intonations provided for the two Mass Antiphons.
References

ALEGRIA, José Augusto, Arquivo da músicas da Sé de Évora. Catálogo, Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1973, pp. 12-13.

ROS-FÁBREGAS, Emilio (2006), 'Libros de polifonía en la Catedral de Pamplona', in Príncipe de Viana, 67/238, pp. 335-388 [Estudios sobre música y músicos de Navarra, ed. María Gembero Ustárroz].

RUBIO CALZÓN, Samuel (1950), 'El archivo de música de la Catedral de Plasencia', Anuario Musical 5, pp. 147-68

Grove Music Online: 'Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da' (article.20749)

COLLECTED EDITIONS: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Werke, ed. F.X. Haberl and others (Leipzig, 1862–1907/R) [H] Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Le opere complete, ed. R. Casimiri and others (Rome, 1939–87) [C].

Description author/s
Bernadette Nelson
Indexed by
Bernadette Nelson
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