The Masses and Lamentations were copied by a single scribe, possibly Dom Francisco de Santa Maria; the motets were added at the end by a different scribe. From the monastery of Santa Cruz, in Coimbra.

ii + 84 + ii leaves

One folio is missing from the beginning of the manuscript. All edges have been trimmed.

Old but not original covers of light brown tooled leather over boards, added when the book was re-bound between 1937 and 1941.

black void mensural

c. 1575

Original ink foliation, 2–49; twenty-eight originally unnumbered folios have been bound between 23 and 24. Modern pencil foliation from the end of the first section of original foliation onwards, 24–85. (Census describes both systems of foliation incorrectly, stating that the modern folio numbers begin at 2 (rather than 24) and that the original ink foliation is 1–23 and 25–49.)

Various types of initials: some black calligraphic, some block red, some small but elaborate calligraphic in red.

paper

6 Masses, 3 Lamentations, 4 motets = 13

Santa Maria-1, anon-12

i + 84 + i paper folios, 580 x 420. Modern pencil foliation, 2-85; partial original ink foliation, 1-23 and 25-49. Covers of light brown tooled leather, old but not original, similar to those of CoimU 2 and CoimU 9. The Masses and Lamentations were copied by a single scribe; the motets were added at the end by a different scribe. Various types of initials: some black calligraphic, some block red, some small but elaborate calligraphic in red.

Second half of the 16th century. From the monastery of Santa Cruz, in Coimbra.