P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0042

Archive
P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
Shelfmark
MM 0042
Siglum

P-Cug MM 0042

Source type
Gradual
Lectionary
Tonary
Category
monophony
Completeness
complete or nearly complete
Document type
manuscript
Date
15th - 16th century
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.

Type of script
Gothic
Type of notation
Semi-mensural
Square
Description of the notation

Semi-mensural notations from pages 63 to 65.

Decoration

Red or blue flourish initials, a parti-coloured letter (see p. 35) and some black cadels initials.

Material
Parchment
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).

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.

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