Copied by Martín Pérez (NooneT). Pieces ordered by genre: (1) psalms; (2) hymns; (3) Magnificats; (4) canticles; (5) sequences. Copied in Toledo, for use by cathedral choir.
E-Tc Ms. 12
Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain
manuscript of polyphony: c. 1542
| Archive | Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain (E-Tc) |
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| Shelfmark | Ms. 12 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 695 x 480 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 36 compositions from 4 composers. |
General Description
Binding
Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards, with metal corners and bosses; clasps missing
Notation
black void mensural
Date
Ca. 1542, with corrections and additions in 1545 and 1555 (NooneT)
Foliation
Original ink foliation, 1-118
Decoration
Painted initials and inked initials in various colours; voice designations appear within decorative scroll designs. Most decoration is work of Francisco de Buitrago, but some initials added by a different hand (NooneT).
Index
Original index on ff. [ii-ii'] lists all pieces in order of appearance (with a few discrepancies), except for Mass Proper sections on ff. 111'-118'.
Surface
parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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2 Mass Proper sections (1 fragmentary), 8 Magnificats, 2 canticles, 13 psalms (6 with additional alternate doxologies), 9 hymns = 34
Bernal González-1, Boluda/Torrentes-1, * Quebedo-2, Torrentes-30
*Hymn "Jesu corona virginum" on ff. 54'-56 attributed to Boluda over music, but to Torrentes in index. See NooneT I, 65-6, for discussion.
ii + 118 + i parchment folios, 695 x 480. Original ink foliation, 1-118. Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards, with metal corners and bosses; clasps missing. Original index on ff. [ii-ii'] lists all pieces in order of appearance (with a few discrepancies), except for Mass Proper sections on ff. 111'-118'.
Copied by Martín Pérez (NooneT); see general index for other manuscripts copied by the same scribe. Painted initials and inked initials in various colors; voice designations appear within decorative scroll designs. Most decoration is work of Francisco de Buitrago, but some initials added by a different hand (NooneT). Pieces ordered by genre: (1) psalms; (2) hymns; (3) Magnificats; (4) canticles; (5) sequences.
Ca. 1542, with corrections and additions in 1545 and 1555 (NooneT). Copied in Toledo, for use by cathedral choir.
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‡ denotes primary source study
‡ Noone, Michael John. 2011. A Sixteenth-Century Manuscript Choirbook of Polyphony for Vespers at Toledo Cathedral by Andrés de Torrentes (c. 1510-80). Pure Gold: Golden Age Sacred Music in the Iberial World. A Homage to Bruno Turner, 3-26. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger.
Reynaud, François. 1996. La Polyphonie Tolédane et son milieu des premiers témoignages aux environs de 1600. Paris/Turnhout.
Noone, Michael John. 1982. Andrés de Torrentes (1510-1580), Spanish Polyphonist and Chapelmaster: Opera Omnia, Biography and Source Study. University of Sydney, Unpublished Masters dissertation. Pages: I, 38, 62-7, plate I II, #3-10, 17-29, 34-40, 54-5, 57. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial); transcriptions (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.
Stevenson, Robert. 1973. The Toledo Manuscript Polyphonic Choirbooks and some other lost or little known Flemish Sources. Fontes Artis Musicae, 20: 87-107. Pages: 94, 103, 105-6. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).
Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing. Pages: 167. Notes: contents list (partial); incipits (partial).
Rubio Piqueras, Felipe. 1925. Códices Polifónicos Toledanos. Toledo. Pages: 27-8. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.
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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
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