E-Sc Libro de polifonia 2

Catedral Metropolitana, Biblioteca del Coro (housed in the Institución Colombina), Seville, Spain

manuscript of polyphony: 1573-76

Archive Catedral Metropolitana, Biblioteca del Coro (housed in the Institución Colombina), Seville, Spain (E-Sc)
Shelfmark Libro de polifonia 2
Surface Parchment
Format portrait
Notations
  • black void mensural
Copyists
External Links
Provenance
Contents Contains 38 compositions, 37 from 3 composers, 1 is anonymous.
General Description

Book of polyphony for Vespers, copied by Diego Dorta (or d'Orta) under Francisco Guerrero's guidance for the Seville chapter. 125 folios. Some sheets corrected/amended probably reflecting Tridentine reforms adopted by Seville in 1575.

The book contains a series of psalms and a complete cycle of hymns by Francisco Guerrero, with the exception of four verses attributed to Rodrigo de Ceballos and Juan Navarro (two each). Some of the hymns are reworkings of previous versions composed by Guerrero c. 1546, which were revised again for publication in Liber vesperarum (Rome, Domenico Basa, 1584)

Many folios have been lost or removed. Juan Ruiz Jiménez has identifed a number of fragments from missing folios previously in this book, used in the 1700s as binding reinforcements on other mss in the archive. These fragments are collated in the DIAMM Virtual Manuscript Archive.

DIAMM, 2023
Physical Description

Many folios lost or removed: using the original roman foliation, ff. i-xiv, cii, cxii-cxviii and cxlvii-cxlviii are mostly lost (a few fragments remain), and only fragments remain of ff. xlix, cxxvi, cxxxii, and cxliv-cxlv

DIAMM, 2024
Foliation

Three differing foliations, all on the rectos only: - in pencil (top right corner); this is the one used in the inventory here on DIAMM - in ink, contemporary roman numerals (right-hand margin, centre) - see the Virtual ms reconstruction - in ink (bottom margin, centred)

A PDF concordance for the different foliations can be downloaded here

DIAMM, 2021
Decoration

3 illuminated capitals.

DIAMM, 2019
Surface

Parchment

DIAMM, 2019

30r

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‡ denotes primary source study

‡ Jiménez, Juan Ruiz. 2007. La Librería de Canto de Órgano. Creación y pervivencia del repertorio del Renacimiento en la actividad musical de la catedral de Sevilla.  Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Cultura. Pages: 40-48; 391-402. Notes: discussion; contents; gathering diagrams; concordances.

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Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Monday, 15 January, 2024

Addition to bibliography. Corrected inventory of the manuscript. Additional fragments of the ms identified in other mss in the archive; these will be added to DIAMM & a 'virtual manuscript' created to record their positions in E-Sc 2 before it was mutilated.