The manuscript is comprised predominantly of copies of motets and other vocal polyphony, the majority of which receive textual incipits, or may be partially texted; it also includes a few instrumental (keyboard) pieces.

MS prepared in advance of copying; three original scribes; alterations and additions by different later hands as late as the 17th-century (see Rees 1995, pp. 278-81). It is closely related to P-Cug MM 242, which was entirely copied by scribe A.

1 Agnus Dei; 1 Alleluia; 1 Canção; 1 Canticle; 10 Chansons; 2 Credo; 3 Fabordões; 1 Gloria; 1 Lamentation; 2 Marian antiphons; 46 Motets; 1 Responsory; 1 Sanctus; 7 unidentified (=78). Instrumental: 13

in open score format. Manuscript shows little sign of trimming.

Old, possibly original, soft coves consisting of a parchment folio, apparently from a Latin dictionary, on both sides of which is Gothic script. Remains of leather ties

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Inscription on verso of second unnumbered folio at back of MS: ‘Em os seis dias do mes de junho 1559 começei a dar lição / de tanger aos irmãos dom bras dom bernado e dom joam’,

Inscription on last verso includes the date 1559. Manuscript probably compiled in the 1550s or 1560s, and may have been complete by 1559

ii + 121 + ii folios; folios 67, 69, 118 & 125 are missing - a note in pencil records that the first two were lost by 1940. Old (possibly original) brown ink foliation at top right corner of rectos, 1-127: ff. 13 & 63 unnumbered.

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