E-AL MS 3

Biblioteca de la Colegiata, Alquézar, Spain

manuscript of polyphony: Late 16th century

Archive Biblioteca de la Colegiata, Alquézar, Spain (E-AL)
Shelfmark MS 3
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 415 x 275 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: AlqBC 3
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Contents Contains 5 uninventoried works or miscellaneous sections.
General Description

One scribe copied ff. 1'-85; a second scribe copied ff. 85'-164; eight other scribes added pieces at various times afterwards. Probably copied at the collegiate church of Santa Maria Mayor.

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Binding

Original covers of parchment, taken from a chant book of the late 15th or early 16th century

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Original foliation, incomplete; modem pencil foliation, 1-193 (the folio after f. 189 has been omitted)

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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17 Magnificats, 15 psalms, 4 hymns, 9 motets = 45 + 5 dupli-cates = 50

(Guerrero)-1, Morales-9, Pujol-1, Robledo-24, Silos-1, anon-9

194 paper folios, 415 x 275. Original foliation, incomplete; modem pencil foliation, 1-193 (the folio after f. 189 was skipped). Original covers of parch-ment, taken from a chant book of the late 15th or early 16th century. No index. One scribe copied ff. 1'-85; a second scribe copied ff. 85'-164; eight other scribes added pieces at various times afterwards.

Late 16th century. Probably copied at the collegiate church of Santa Maria Mayor. Temporarily removed to the cathedral archives in Huesca, where it was studied by Robert Snow in 1974.

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

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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Foliation Note; Surface Note

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