E-Tc Ms. 22

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

manuscript of polyphony: Late 16th century

Archive Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain (E-Tc)
Shelfmark Ms. 22
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 410 x 280 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ToleBC 22
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
Contents 16 pieces from 5 composers Contains 2 uninventoried works or miscellaneous sections.
General Description

Composite MS of several originally separate fascicles probably bound together in late 16th or early 17th century. Copied by one main scribe and several additional scribes. Produced in Toledo, for use by cathedral choir.

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Binding

Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards, with metal bosses and edges.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

modern pencil foliation, 1-89; 100-134; 125 [sic] (some folios not numbered, but correctly counted by enumeration; '90-99' omitted, apparently by error)

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Decoration

A few inked calligraphic initials; no other decoration.

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Index

Incomplete index added by later hand on f. 1.

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Surface

Parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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5 psalms, 1 processional hymn, 7 Passions, 9 motets, 1 litany, 1 textless falsobordone = 24

Boluda-1, A. Lobo-4, Morales-1, Morales/(Torrentes)-1, Sancta Maria-2, (F. Torre)-1, anon-14

i + 125 parchment folios, 410 x 280. Composite of several originally separate fascicles probably bound together in late 16th or early 17th century. No original foliation; modern pencil foliation, 1-89; 100-134; 125 [sic] (some folios not numbered, but correctly counted by enumeration; "90-99" omitted, apparently by error). Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards, with metal bosses and edges. Incomplete index added by later hand on f. 1. Copied by one main scribe and several additional scribes. A few inked calligraphic initials; no other decoration.

Late 16th century. Copied in Toledo, for use by cathedral choir.

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Known compositions

Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages Source Attribution
Cetus in excelsis
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553) (?)
83v–84 -
Cum invocarem
Lobo, Alonso
65v–66 -
Israel es tu rex Davidis
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553)
81v–83 -
Kyrie eleison
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553) (?)
84v–85 -
Missa Requiem (4vv): Introitus: Kyrie. Graduale. Motette. Tractus. Sicut cervus. Motette Si ambulavero. Offertorium, Sanctus with: Pleni, Benedictus. Agnus. Communio. Postcommunio.
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553)
104v–134 -
Passion acc. Mark, Non in die festo
Sancta Maria, Jorge de
49v–56 -
Passion according to Luke, Ubi vis paremus
Lobo, Alonso
38v–48 -
Passion according to Luke, Ubi vis paremus
Sancta Maria, Jorge de
57v–64 -
Passion according to Mark, Non in die festo Anonymous 27v–37 -
Passion according to Mark, Non in die festo
Lobo, Alonso
70v–79 -
Passion according to Matthew, Non in die festo Anonymous 1v–12 -
Passion according to Matthew, Non in die festo
Lobo, Alonso
13v–27 -
Qui prophetice
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553) (?)
85v–86 -
Quoniam ipse liberavit me
Boluda, Ginés de
80v–81 -

Known composers

Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages Item title Attribution in Source
Works by
Torrentes, Andres de (?)
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553) (?)
[-] - -
Works by
Torre, Francisco de la
[-] - -
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Boluda, Ginés de
Lobo, Alonso
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553)
Sancta Maria, Jorge de
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Cetus in excelsis
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553) (?)
83v–84
Cum invocarem
Lobo, Alonso
65v–66
Israel es tu rex Davidis
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553)
81v–83
Kyrie eleison
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553) (?)
84v–85
Missa Requiem (4vv): Introitus: Kyrie. Graduale. Motette. Tractus. Sicut cervus. Motette Si ambulavero. Offertorium, Sanctus with: Pleni, Benedictus. Agnus. Communio. Postcommunio.
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553)
104v–134
Passion acc. Mark, Non in die festo
Sancta Maria, Jorge de
49v–56
Passion according to Luke, Ubi vis paremus
Lobo, Alonso
38v–48
Passion according to Luke, Ubi vis paremus
Sancta Maria, Jorge de
57v–64
Passion according to Mark, Non in die festo Anonymous 27v–37
Passion according to Mark, Non in die festo
Lobo, Alonso
70v–79
Passion according to Matthew, Non in die festo Anonymous 1v–12
Passion according to Matthew, Non in die festo
Lobo, Alonso
13v–27
Qui prophetice
Morales, Cristóbal de (ca. 1500–1553) (?)
85v–86
Quoniam ipse liberavit me
Boluda, Ginés de
80v–81

‡ denotes primary source study

Reynaud, François. 1996. La Polyphonie Tolédane et son milieu des premiers témoignages aux environs de 1600.  Paris/Turnhout.

Snow, Robert Joseph. 1983. Toledo Cathedral Ms. Reservado 23: A Lost Manuscript Rediscovered. The Journal of Musicology, 246-77. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

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, 60, 132. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Stevenson, Robert. 1973. The Toledo Manuscript Polyphonic Choirbooks and some other lost or little known Flemish Sources. Fontes Artis Musicae, 87-107. Pages: 93-4, 99, 101, 104. Notes: contents list (partial).

Stevenson, Robert. 1961. Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age.  Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pages: 302. Notes: contents list (partial).

Rubio Piqueras, Felipe. 1925. Códices Polifónicos Toledanos.  Toledo. Pages: 44-5. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

Trend, J B. 1925. Cristobal Morales. Music and Letters, 19-34. Pages: 30. Notes: contents list (partial).

Cllet, Henri. 1913. Le Mysticisme Musical Espagnol au XVI' Siècle.  Paris. Pages: 344. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial).

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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