P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0053

Archive
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Shelfmark
MM 0053
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0053

Source type
Polyphonic book
Subcategory of source
Choirbook
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
Late 16th century [c.1585-c.1600]
Contents
Polyphony: Alleluias (8), antiphons (3), Benedicamus domino (5), Canticles (1), Chorus (1), Lamentations (2), Litanies (7), Marian antiphons (3), Mass propers (4) Mass section (1), Motets (40), Passions (6), Psalms (11), Responses (1), Responsories (1), Songs (2), Te Deum (3), unidentified (1) (=100) Chant: Mass sections (2)
Type of script
Modern
Type of notation
Mensural (white)
Decoration

No decoration

Inscriptions
‘Dom Gabriel de S. Joaõ’ [an Augustinian canon, fl. 1624], fol. [i]r; a number of pieces have liturgical assignment, authorship attribution, indication of mode, directions for transposition, and other information relating to performance practice
Material
Paper
Condition of document

Fair; little to moderate ink corrosion and bleed-through on several folios without loss of text

Page layout

Choirbook format. 312 × 220 mm

Foliation/Pagination

i + 132 + i; old ink foliation, fols 001-014, 021-089, 091-0133; modern blue ink foliation, fols 015-020 filling the gap in the old foliation; fol. 90 is missing

Gathering

a6, b4, c8, d6+1, e-g8, h4+1, i8, j6, k2, l6, m10, n6+1, o6+1 (lacks 1 fol. after fol. 89), p-t8; back flyleaf pasted to fol. 133

Watermarks
1 type of paper; 1 watermark, also occurring in P-Cug MM 44 (paper 2; see Rees, appendix 1)
Bindings

Old, possibly original, covers made of a parchment folio from a large chant book; remains of leather ties

Remarks
Incomplete index on fol. [i]v with several inaccuracies; two original scribes; additions, mostly chant, by different later hands (cf. Rees 1995, p. 291). Manuscript compiled complete with margins and staves in advance of copying the music (cf. Rees 1995, p. 289). It was copied from several Santa Cruz manuscripts, including especially P-Cug MM 33 (then newly compiled/copied by Pedro de Cristo). Blank folios: fol. 049r (staves drawn; first system indented); fols 059v-060r, 097r-098r, 120v-121r (staves drawn for four-part piece; first line of each voice part indented); fol. 134r (no staves drawn)
References

REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, New York & London: Garland, 1995, pp. 283-95

REES, Owen (ed.), Music by Pedro de Cristo: An Edition of the Motets from Coimbra Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, MM 33, Amsterdam: Harvard Academic Publishers, 1998 [Introduction includes list of works by Pedro de Cristo in surviving Portuguese sources]

REES, Owen (ed.), Music by Pedro de Cristo, New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 2012

REES, Owen, “ ‘Jesu redemptor’: Polyphonic Funerary Litanies in Portugal”, in Pure Gold. Pure Gold. Golden Age Sacred Music in the Iberian World: A Homage to Bruno Turner, ed. T. Knighton and Bernadette Nelson, Kassel: Reichenberger, 2011

 

 

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Reviewed by
Bernadette Nelson