An Altus partbook (voice-parts mostly in (2nd) superius range, with the occasional piece for 'altus' or tenor). At least 33 folios have been cut out, leaving only stubs (originally 72 folios); some evidence of other folios missing from later in book. May have been copied by a single scribe. Probably copied in Toledo; purchased in that city from an antiquarian book dealer.

Original covers of brown leather worked with gold.

Inscription inside covers: 'Contra alto deno segor en [de voz que era?] de mi senora dona ysabel de quinoses de dona madalena de Billaquiran y de dona francisca ma Ri que [manrique?] que dios guarde amen amen.' Isabel de Quinoses and Dona Beatriz also named on back cover.

black void

Original ink foliation, 34-72.

paper

A part-book preserved in the Instituto Español de Musicología, Barcelona, contains over fifty items of sacred music by composers associated with both the Cathedral and the Colegio de los Infantes in Toledo during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. These composers range from Morales and Guerrero, to Francisco de Tapia and Jorge de Santa María -- both Masters at the Colegio in the later sixteenth century -- and Alonso Lobo, chapelmaster at the cathedral, 1593 to 1603. The majority of the music is unique to this source, and it also includes works by Morales that were revised for publication when he was in Italy. The part-book is very largely copied for second or first superius, and there are indications that much of the repertory was intended for high voices; but there is also the occasional piece for a lower voice part. The manuscript contains a wide range of Latin-texted sacred music that includes mass settings, Magnificats, motets and psalms. In addition to about a dozen items by Morales, the partbook includes rare settings of calendas by Santa Maria, examples of mass propers in contrapunto style by Francisco de Tapia, and a sequence of music for the Christmas Misa del gallo (midnight mass).

2 Masses, 6 Mass Proper sections, 5 Magnificats, 1 Te Deum, 1 Canticle, 17 psalms (9 are falsobordoni settings), 3 hymns, 2 Lamentations, 19 motets, 1 textless piece = 57 + 2 duplicates = 59

Detapia-7, Guerrero-2, A. Lobo-1, Morales-10, Ruys-1, anon-36

1 paper partbook (A-39 folios of an original 72), 260 x 202. At the beginning, 33 folios have been cut out; only stubs remain. Original ink foliation, 34-72. Original covers of brown leather worked with gold. No index. Inscription inside covers: "Co . . . ra al Io deno segor en demi senora dona ysabel de quinoses de dona madalena de Billaquiran y de dona foran, ciscama Ri que . . . dios guarde amen amen."

1601-3 (KirschQM). Probably copied in Toledo; purchased in that city from an antiquarian book dealer.