P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0242
16 watermarks; 16 paper types: cf Rees (1995), pp. 339, 408-11
Modern pencil inscription/ signature top fol. 001r: F Macedo. (Identifed as Francisco Lopes Lima de Macedo, c. 1859-1939; see Estudante (2019)). Main heading in MS, in additional to titles above pieces: ‘Vermudo Pera Tanger’ (fol. 81r); ‘Obras pera Tanger de Antonio cabeçon o cego’ (fol. 102r)
With the exception of most of the copying on fols. 122r-125r, the MS is the work of a single copyist also responsible for most of the copying on fols 001v-025r, 030v-035r, 052v-054r, 057v-061r, 066v-120v and 122v-127v of P-Cug MM 48. The copyist wrote (in the first person, while remaining anonymous) an inscription at the rear of MM 48 indicating that he had begun to give lessons in keyboard playing to three of his colleagues at Santa Cruz de Coimbra in June 1559. The MS contains mainly a4 vocal works, apparently copied for study purposes (see Rees, 1995). A smaller quantity of instrumentally conceived music has also been included, mainly collected in two groups (fols 001-040v and 101v-119v).
Top and bottom edges of folios trimmed after 1973 (Rees, p. 325). This may have obscured original foliation. At least one folio missing from MS between fols 062 and 063, fol. 089, and between fols 115 and 116. Lower corners of first three folios torn off. Along with P-Cug MM 228 and MM 229, MM 242 was acquired by the organist Francisco Lopes Lima de Macedo (c.1859-1939) in the nineteenth century. It remained in private hands until it was acquired in the 1940s (with financial backing from the Acção Cultural das Fábricas Aleluia (Carlos Aleluia) by Mário Sampayo Ribeiro (1898-1966) for the Polyphonia-Schola Cantorum choir, which donated it to the BGUC. (Label pasted inside front cover reads: POLYPHONIA (SCHOLA CANTORUM), with inscription: ‘oferta da Acção Cultural das Fábricas Aleluia, de Aveiro’)
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