P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade 0042

Archive: 
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Siglum: 
P-Cug MM 0042
Shelfmark: 
MM 0042
Source type: 
Gradual
Lectionary
Tonary
Category: 
monophony
Completeness: 
complete or nearly complete
Document type: 
manuscript
Date: 
15th - 16th century
Type of notation: 
Semi-mensural
Square
Type of script: 
Gothic
Contents (feasts): 
Andreae
Catharinae
Conceptio Mariae
De Spiritu Sancto
Pro Defunctis
Material: 
Parchment
Contents: 

p.1: Lectio libri Machabaeorum; p.3: Agnus Dei;  p.4: Gradual; p.14 - Tones for Gloria Patri; p.17: Kyrial (Kyrie and Sanctus tones); p.33: Gradual; p.43: Pro defunctis Mass; p.56: Lectionarium (Lectio actuum apostolorum, Lectio epistolae beati pauli apostoli ad romanos, Lectio libri Sapientiae, Lectio libri apocalypsis Johannes apostoli); p. 63: Responsory for the death: Memento dei; p. 65: Kyrie.

Foliation/Pagination: 
The manuscript shows one foliation and a pagination. Continuous modern pagination written in pencil in Arabic numerals placed at the top external corner of each page. References are given here to the Arabic numbering. Foliation in Roman numerals in red ink from pages 5 to 37 and in black ink from 39 to 43 and between 47 and 59. Foliation is placed at top right corner of the recto.
Condition of document: 
Good despite some erasures and corrections (see p.42 for a text correction and p.4 for music correction). Ink faded on some pages (see the red ink for the staves on p.21).
Decoration: 
Red or blue flourish initials, a parti-coloured letter (see p. 35) and some black cadels initials.
Remarks: 

The Agnus Dei (p.3) was added by a modern hand on a folio that was originally left empty.
Pp.45-6 are written by a different hand.
Occasionally portions of text and/or notes were erased and sometimes the text was replaced (e.g. p.42 and 58).

References: 

Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, Inventário dos inéditos e impressos musicais. Subsídios para um catálogo, Coimbra: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, 1937, p. 38.

Description of the notation: 

Semi-mensural notations from pages 63 to 65.

Indexed by: 
Carla Crespo
Description author/s: 
Carla Crespo
Reviewed by: 
Elsa De Luca