Copied by Pedro de Cristo. Manuscript prepared in advance of copying, with margins and staves ruled throughout book. Manuscript used later by copyists of P-Cug MM 44 and MM 53, who recopied much of the music. Motets in this manuscript reflect music for feasts of highest rank ('of four cantors'), as represented in printed 1531 breviary and other books pertaining to the monastery. These feasts include the Exaltation and the Invention of the Holy Cross; the Nativity of St John Baptist. Also represented are St Martin of Tours and St (Queen) Isabel, two saints of particular devotion in Portugal. (Cf Rees 1995, p.235). From the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra.
| Archive | Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, Coimbra, Portugal (P-Cug) |
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| Shelfmark | MM.33 |
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| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 421 x 275 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 81 compositions, 28 from 3 composers, 53 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Old covers of white leather over boards. (Material similar to that used for P-Cug MM 36.) Book rebound between 1937 and 1941, possibly re-using original covers.
Watermark
6 watermarks: Wm 1 resembles Briquet #207; wm 4, Briquet #6097; wm 5, Briquet #11936; wm 6, Briquet #4844. (Details in Rees 1995, pp. 376 & 400-402.)
Foliation
Original ink foliation, with several irregularities: 2-45, 48 (='46' in inventory), 48 (= '47' in inventory), 48-90, 100-106, 108, 108-110, 112, 112-115, 118-126 (last folio torn but probably 127; as all four voices are copied on f. 127v, this was probably the last original folio)
Decoration
f. 2r has probable self-portrait of Pedro de Cristo as initial, entitled 'D. PETRVS' AVT(OR).
Some elaborate coloured or gold initials.
Surface
paper
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‡ denotes primary source study
Rees, Owen (editor). 1998. Music by Pedro de Cristo: An Edition of the Motets from Coimbra Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 33. MM, vol. 33. Amsterdam: Harvard Academic Publishers.
Rees, Owen. 1995. Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra. New York & London: Garland. Pages: 229-36, 376 & 400-402. Notes: physical description; inventory; concordances.
Rees, Owen. 1994. Newly Identifed Holograph Manuscripts from Late-Renaissance Portugal. Early Music, 22: 261-77.
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