P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0053
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)
1 type of paper; 1 watermark, also occurring in P-Cug MM 44 (paper 2; see Rees, appendix 1)
‘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
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)
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