E-Tc Ms. 6

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

manuscript of polyphony: 3rd quarter 16th century - c.1570

Archive Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain (E-Tc)
Shelfmark Ms. 6
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Surface Parchment
Measurements 700mm x 400mm
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Provenance
  • Toledo, Spain
Contents Contains 20 compositions, 19 from 1 composer, 1 is anonymous.
General Description

According to Gutiérrez Cajaraville (p. 90), this book was commissioned by the Toledo Chapelmaster and composer Bernardino de Ribera in 1569; it was completed in 1570, and Ribera was paid 200 ducats for it.

This beautifully illuminated book ("one of the most stunning visually in the entire Toledo polyphonic corpus" - Stevenson) originally consisted of 159/160 parchment folios, but 25 complete folios have been torn out. It was thought by Noone to have been copied, like many other Toledan mss, by Martín Pérez and illustrated by Francisco de Buitrago; but according to Gutiérrez Cajaraville it is not the work of Perez - died in 1558 - nor (probably) of Buitrago.

This manuscript is the most important source for Bernardino de Ribera's works, most of them are unica, but many are incomplete owing to the missing folios. Only Domine quando veneris, the fabordon on fol. 87v, is not by Ribera - it was added some time after the ms was presented to the Cathedral.

DIAMM, 2018
Physical Description

25 individual folios torn out; also many illuminated initials. Most pieces incomplete due to lost folios (only 3 of the motets & 3 magnificats are complete), and also mostly unica.

DIAMM, 2018
Foliation

original foliation, 20 gatherings

DIAMM, 2018
Surface

Parchment

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denotes primary source study

Gutierrez Cajaraville, Carlos. 2016. Bernardino de Ribera's Compositional Summary: Toledo Polyphonic Codex 6. Fontes Artis Musicae, vol.63, no.2: 89-99.

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

Stevenson, Robert. 1973. The Toledo Manuscript Polyphonic Choirbooks and some other lost or little known Flemish Sources. Fontes Artis Musicae, 20: 87-107.

Lenaerts, René Bernard. 1952. Les Manuscrits Polyphoniques de la Bibliothèque Capitulaire de Tolède. International Musicological Society: Report of the 4th Congress, Utrech 1952, 276-81.

Rubio Piqueras, Felipe. 1925. Códices Polifónicos Toledanos.  Toledo.

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