E-Tc Ms. 18 (part 2)

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

manuscript of polyphony: 1543-6

Archive Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain (E-Tc)
Shelfmark Ms. 18 (part 2)
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Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 700 x 500 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ToleBC 18(2)
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Contents Contains 7 compositions from 3 composers.
General Description

Composite of portions of two separate manuscripts, bound together in late 16th century.

  • Part I: 62 folios of an original 126 from a choirbook of 1546 (ff. lxiii-ciii from same manuscript now = Part II of ToleBC 25; ff. ciiii-cxxvi from same manuscript now = Part I of ToleBC 34).

  • Part II: 34 folios of an original 120 or more (ff. cii-cxiiii from same manuscript now = Part III of ToleBC 34; other folios lost).

Both manuscripts copied by Martín Pérez (NooneT). Copied in Toledo, for use by cathedral choir.

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Physical Description

Some folios mutilated due to removal of decorative initials.

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Binding

Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards; metal clasps missing.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Part I: original foliation in red ink, i-lxii. Part II: original foliation in red ink, i-xxv; xxxii-xl

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Decoration

Illuminated miniatures; painted initials and inked initials in black, grey, gold, green, red, blue, and burgundy. Attributions and voice designations sometimes appear within decorative scroll designs. Coat of arms of Juan Tavera, Archbishop of Toledo 1534-45, on f. 1' of Part II. Decoration is work of Francisco de Buitrago (NooneT).

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Index

First page of each manuscript bears original index listing all pieces, grouped by genre, with attributions

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Surface

parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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Part I: 3 Magnificats, 3 psalms, 7 hymns, 2 sets of Lamentations, 2 motets (1 incomplete) = 17.* Part II: 6 Magnificats (2 incomplete), 1 Magnificat fragment = 7.** Total for manuscript = 24

*Of total contents listed in original index, 4 Magnificats and portions of 1 canticle are now in Part I of ToleBC 34; 1 Te Deum, 4 psalms, 6 hymns, and 4 motets are now lost. **Of total contents listed in original index, 2 complete Magnificats and fragments of 2 other Magnificats are now in Part III of ToleBC 34; 7 additional Magnificats are now lost.

Basurto-1, C. Festa-2, Josquin-2, Morales-1, Torrentes-l8

(Composers of lost works: Gascongne? [Gascon]-1, Lhéritier-1, Morales-16, Peñalosa-2, Rabaneda-1, Torrentes-1)

ii + 96 parchment folios, 700 x 500. Composite of portions of two separate manuscripts, bound together in late 16th century—

Part I: 62 folios of an original 126. Original foliation in red ink, i-lxii (ff. ciiii-cxxvi from same manuscript now = Part I of ToleBC 34; other folios lost).

Part II: 34 folios of an original 120 or more. Original foliation in red ink, i-xxv; xxxii-xl (ff. cii-cxiiii from same manuscript now = Part III of ToleBC 34; other folios lost).

Some folios mutilated due to removal of decorative initials. Original covers of brown leather over wooden boards; metal clasps missing. First page of each manuscript bears original index listing all pieces, grouped by genre, with attributions. Both manuscripts copied by Martín Pérez (NooneT); see general index for other manuscripts copied by the same scribe. Illuminated miniatures; painted initials and inked initials in black, gray, gold, green, red, blue, and burgundy. Attributions and voice designations sometimes appear within decorative scroll designs. Coat of arms of Juan Tavera, Archbishop of Toledo 1534-45, on f. 1' of Part II. Decoration is work of Francisco de Buitrago (NooneT).

Part I: 1544-6 (NooneT); Part II: 1543 (date in manuscript). Copied in Toledo, for use by cathedral choir.

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Sets

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‡ denotes primary source study

Diego Pacheco, Cristina. 2016. Cristóbal de Morales en Espagne: ses premières œuvres et le manuscrit de Valladolid. 304. Lyon: Symétrie Recherche. 978-2-914373-92-0.

Noone, Michael John. 2002. Cristóbal de Morales in Toledo, 1545-6: ToleBC 25 and 'New' Works by Morales, Guerrero, Lobo, Tejeda and Ambiela. Early Music, Vol. 30, no. 3: 341-363. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); reconstruction of original choirbooks dispersed between ToleBC 18, 25, 34.

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, 12, 38, 44, 47-8, 55, 68-82, plate III II, #11-6, 31-3, 41-7, 50-1. 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: 96ff. Notes: contents list (partial).

Kirsch, Winfried. 1966. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat- und Te Deum-Vertonungen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts.  Tutzing. Pages: 167. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Main, Alexander, and Albert Seay (editors). 1962-. Costanza Festa: Opera Omnia. Corpus mensurabilis musicae, vol. 25.  Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Pages: II, xvii-xviii, xxv, xxxi. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Anglès, Higinio (editor). 1941-1971. Monumentos de la Mùsica Espanola.  Madrid (later Barcelona, later Rome). Pages: I, 131 XVII, 52. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial).

Smijers, Albert (editor). 1926-64. Werken van Josquin des Prez: Motetten.  Amsterdam. Pages: XI, vii XII, xxii. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances (partial).

Rubio Piqueras, Felipe. 1925. Códices Polifónicos Toledanos.  Toledo. Pages: 34-7. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list.

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