E-Tc Ms. 30

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

manuscript of polyphony: mid- to late-1570s

Archive Archivio y Biblioteca Capitulares de la Catedral Metropolitana, Toledo, Spain (E-Tc)
Shelfmark Ms. 30
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 720mm x 485mm
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
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Provenance
  • Rome, Italy
Contents 11 pieces from 1 composers
General Description

Brought from Rome by Juan Navarra in 1575 & presented to Toledo Cathedral. Contents are all alternative redactions - possibly designed for a Spanish audience - of works featured in Victoria's 'Liber primus' (1576). "The largest and probably also most important of all Victoria manuscripts" (Noone/Skinner), it shows very little sign of any use.

Copied by the papal scribe Johannes Parvus (Brauner 1988), perhaps at Victoria's own instigation (it is the first copy of any of Victoria's music by Parvus & pre-dates the arrival of Victoria's works in the papal chapel's repertory). It has also the largest page-size known among the Parvus mss. The Magnificat settings are arranged in odd/even sets, unlike mss for the Papal chapel, arguing that Parvus did not produce this for the Vatican.

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Binding

Boards with leather covers, adorned with ten studs, corner-pieces & brass clasps

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Watermark

Two crossed arrows under a six-pointed star. I-Rvat SMM 29 & I-Ls A.8 share same paper size & watermark - dated after 1576 & before Oct 1577 by Brauner, though Noone/Skinner argues for an earlier date.

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Date

Dated c1577 by Wojcicka-Hruza; Thomas Schmidt suggested a period of compilation between the middle of the decade of 1560 to the beginning of the 1570s (NooneFuentes); 1572-75 (Noone/Skinner).

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Decoration

a single illuminated set of arms (of Juan Navarra) was at the beginning, but was removed sometime after 1795. Other colour illuminations added at Toledo Cathedral after the ms was donated.

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Surface

paper

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
1v–19 Missa Ave maris stella -
Appears on: 1v–19
Genres: Agnus Dei, Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Gloria (et in terra pax), Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
19v–41 Missa de Beata Virgine -
Appears on: 19v–41
Genres: Agnus Dei, Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Gloria (et in terra pax), Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
41v–64 Missa Gaudeamus -
Appears on: 41v–64
Genres: Agnus Dei, Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Gloria (et in terra pax), Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary, Sanctus [& Benedictus]
64v–71 Magnificat primi toni: Anima mea -
Appears on: 64v–71
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
71v–76 Magnificat primi toni: Et exultavit -
Appears on: 71v–76
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
76v–82 Magnificat quarti toni: Anima mea -
Appears on: 76v–82
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
82v–88 Magnificat quarti toni: Et exultavit -
Appears on: 82v–88
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
89v–95 Magnificat octavi toni: Anima mea -
Appears on: 89v–95
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
95v–101 Magnificat octavi toni: Et exultavit -
Appears on: 95v–101
Genres: BVM, Canticle, Magnificat
102v–107 Nisi Dominus -
Appears on: 102v–107
Genres: Motet
107v–114 Salve regina (8vv) [in 7 partes] -
Appears on: 107v–114
Genres: Motet, Salve Regina

denotes primary source study

Noone, Michael John, and Graeme Skinner. 2013. The Cathedral, the Copyist, the Composer and the Canon: Revisiting Toledo Cathedral's Victoria Choirbook and the Liber Primus (1576). Estudios Tomas Luis de Victoria, 37-54. Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU).

Noone, Michael John. 2012. Fuentes de la polifonía de Tomás Luis de Victoria en la catedral de Toledo en el siglo XVII. Tomas Luis de Victoria y la cultura musical en la Espana de Felipe III, 353-376. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica.

Filippi, Daniele V. 2008. Riscritture policorali e creatività sonora in Palestrina e Victoria. Polifonie, 63-182.

Wojcicka-Hruza, Lucy. 1997. A manuscript source for Magnificats by Victoria. Early Music, 83-98.

Wojcicka-Hruza, Lucy. 1997. The Marian repertory by Tomas Luis de Victoria in Toledo Biblioteca Capitular MS B. 30: a case study in renaissance imitation. University of Calgary, Ph.D.

Wojcicka-Hruza, Lucy. 1989. The Magnificats by Tomas Luis de Victoria in Biblioteca Capitular MS B. 30: a comparison with the printed editions (1576, 1581 and 1600). University of Calgary, M.Mus.

Brauner, Mitchell Paul. 1982. The Parvus Manuscripts: A Study of Vatican Polyphony, ca. 1535 to 1580. Brandeis University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 256-273. Notes: identifies paper types relevant to E-Tc30.

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