P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0048

Archive
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Shelfmark
MM 0048
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0048

Source type
Polyphonic book
Subcategory of source
Open score
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.1556-c.1559
Contents
Polyphony: 1 Agnus Dei; 1 Alleluia; 1 Canção; 1 Canticle; 10 Chansons; 2 Credo; 3 Fabordões; 1 Gloria; 1 Lamentation; 2 Marian antiphons; 46 Motets; 1 Responsory; 1 Sanctus; 7 unidentified (=78). Instrumental: 13
Type of script
Modern
Type of notation
Mensural (white)
Inscriptions
Inscription on verso of second unnumbered folio at back of MS: ‘Em os seis dias do mes de junho 1559 começei a dar lição / de tanger aos irmãos dom bras dom bernado e dom joam’, by scribe A (cf. Rees 1995, p. 338)
Material
Paper
Condition of document

Fair; ink blots in fols. 78r-81v, with some loss of text in fols. 80v-81r

Page layout

Open score format. 320 × 205 mm

Foliation/Pagination

ii + 121 + ii; old, possibly original, brown ink foliation 1-12, 14-62, 64-66, 68, 70-117, 119-124, 126-127; foliation omitted numbers 13 and 63; fol. 67, 69, 118, and 125 are missing

Gathering

a2, b1+10, c2, d10+1, e10, f1+8+1, g-i10 (i lacks 1 fol. before and after fol. 68), j-n10 (n lacks second leaf, that is fols. 118 and 125), o1+2 (last 2 fols., [i] and [ii], form the back flyleaf). See also Rees (1995), pp. 278-80 and Table 10

Watermarks
1 type of paper; no watermarks
Bindings

Old, possibly original, soft covers made of a parchment folio apparently from a Latin dictionary; remains of leather ties

Remarks
MS prepared in advance of copying; three original scribes; alterations and additions by different later hands as late as the 17th-century (see Rees 1995, pp. 278-81). It is comprised predominantly of copies of motets and other vocal polyphony, the majority of which receive textual incipits, or may be partially texted; it also includes a few instrumental (keyboard) pieces. It is closely related to P-Cug MM 242, which was entirely copied by scribe A Blank folios: 68r-68v (staves and vertical lines drawn)
References

KASTNER, Macario Santiago, ‘Los manuscritos musicales n. 48 y 242 de la Biblioteca General de la Universidad de Coimbra’, in Anuario Musical, vol. 5, Barcelona: Instituto Español de Musicología, 1950, pp. 78-96

REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, New York & London: Garland, 1995, pp. 271-82, 338-60, and 378

NELSON, Bernadette, ‘The Chansons of Thomas Crecquillon and Clemens non Papa in Sources of Instrumental Music in Spain and Portugal, and Sixteenth-Century Keyboard Traditions’, in Beyond Contemporary Fame. Reassessing the Art of Clemens non Papa and Thomas Crecquillon, ed. Eric Jas, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers n.v., 2005, pp. 167-89

NELSON, Bernadette, '"D'oû vient cela?" - Franco-Flemish influences in English and Spanish keyboard music during the sixteenth century, in Cinco Siglos de Música de Tecla Española | FIve Centuries of Spanish Keyboard Music, ed. Luisa Morales (Garrucha: LEAL, 2007), pp. 47-69

REES, Owen & NELSON, Bernadette (ed.), Cristóbal de Morales: Sources, Influences, Reception, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007

OLIVEIRA, Filipe M., 'A génese do tento para instrumentos de tecla no testemunho dos manuscritos P-Cug MM 48 e MM 242 (com uma edição crítica dos ricercari de Jacques Buus e das suas versões recompostas)', Dissertação de Doutoramento, Universidade de Évora, 2011, pp. 7-16, 24-31, 34-39

NELSON, Bernadette, 'Bermudo's masters and models of excellence for keyboard players in sixteenth-century Spain', Revista de Musicologia 39/1 (2016), pp. 77-115

 

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