E-Tc Ms. 7

Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain

manuscript of polyphony: c. 1586

Archive Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain (E-Tc)
Shelfmark Ms. 7
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 544 x 384 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ToleBC 7
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  • Spain
Contents Contains 31 compositions from 6 composers.
General Description

Copied by a single scribe, possibly Fray Pedro Durán (see below), who also wrote second part of GranCR 3. According to inscription on verso of front flyleaf, this source contains all motets composed by R. Ceballos (see SnowRC and StevnsnSCM for discussion of this claim). Copied in Granada. Purchased by Ginés de Boluda and Alonso de Morata for Toledo cathedral choir in 1586; Boluda and Morata purchased manuscript in Granada from Fray Pedro Durán, an Augustinian friar and copyist (SnowRC).

Cristina Urchueguía, 2010
Physical Description

Folios in very poor condition due to severe ink corrosion; some music illegible.

Cristina Urchueguía, 2010
Binding

Restored and rebound in 1980-1; original wooden boards covered with new leather

Cristina Urchueguía, 2010
Notation

not indicated

Cristina Urchueguía, 2010
Foliation

Original ink foliation, [5]-206 + 268-336 (ff. 1-4 and 207-267 now missing)

Cristina Urchueguía, 2010
Decoration

Inked calligraphic initials.

Cristina Urchueguía, 2010
Surface

Paper

Cristina Urchueguía, 2010
Census Catalogue of Music Description

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3 Masses, 68 motets (1 fragmentary) = 71

J. Aliseda [Aliseda]-2, S. Aliseda [Sanctos]-20, R. Ceballos-43, P. Guerrero-2, Morales-3, Phinot-1

i + 271 paper folios of an original 336, 544 x 384. Folios in very poor condition due to severe ink corrosion; some music illegible. Original ink foliation, [5]-206 + 268-336 (ff. 1-4 and 207-267 now missing). Restored and rebound in 1980-1; original wooden boards covered with new leather. No index remains. Copied by a single scribe, possibly Fray Pedro Durán (see below), who also wrote second part of GranCR 3. Inked calligraphic initials. According to inscription on verso of front flyleaf, this source contains all motets composed by R. Ceballos (see SnowRC and StevnsnSCM for discussion of this claim).

Ca. 1586 (SnowRC). Copied in Granada. Purchased by Ginés de Boluda and Alonso de Morata for Toledo cathedral choir in 1586; Boluda and Morata purchased manuscript in Granada from Fray Pedro Durán, an Augustinian friar and copyist (SnowRC).

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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Reynaud, François. 1996. La Polyphonie Tolédane et son milieu des premiers témoignages aux environs de 1600.  Paris/Turnhout.

Borg, Paul. 1980. The Jacaltenango Miscellany: A Revised Catalogue. Inter-American Music Review, 3/1: 55-64. Pages: (57).

Snow, Robert Joseph. 1980. The Extant Music of Rodrigo de Ceballos and Its Sources. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, vol. 44.  Detroit. Pages: (22-6, 41-62, 96-7, 106-9).

Russell, Eleanor. 1978-80. A new manuscript source for the music of Cristobal de Morales: Morales' 'Lost' Missa pro Defunctis and early Spanish requiem traditions. Anuário Musical, 33-35: 9-49. Pages: (26,28,46).

Stevenson, Robert. 1973. The Toledo Manuscript Polyphonic Choirbooks and some other lost or little known Flemish Sources. Fontes Artis Musicae, 20: 87-107. Pages: 91-103, passim.

Merino, Luis Felix. 1972. The Masses of Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599). University of California at Los Angeles, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: (I,26).

López Calo, S.J., José. 1963. La Música en la Catedral de Granada en el Sigio XVI.  Granada. Pages: (II,xii-xiii.xv).

Stevenson, Robert. 1961. Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age.  Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pages: (305-6, 315).

Westrup, Jack A (editor). 1954-. New Oxford History of Music.  London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: (IV,393).

Lenaerts, René Bernard. 1952. Les Manuscrits Polyphoniques de la Bibliothèque Capitulaire de Tolède. International Musicological Society: Report of the 4th Congress, Utrech 1952, 276-81. Pages: (278).

Anglès, Higinio (editor). 1941-1971. Monumentos de la Mùsica Espanola.  Madrid (later Barcelona, later Rome). Pages: XXXIV,23.

Rubio Piqueras, Felipe. 1925. Códices Polifónicos Toledanos.  Toledo. Pages: (23-4).

Cllet, Henri. 1913. Le Mysticisme Musical Espagnol au XVI' Siècle.  Paris. Pages: (343).

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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description