P-Em MS 11793 (Cancioneiro de Elvas)

Biblioteca Municipale (Públia Hortênsia), Elvas, Portugal

manuscript of polyphony: late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth century

Archive Biblioteca Municipale (Públia Hortênsia), Elvas, Portugal (P-Em)
Shelfmark MS 11793 (Cancioneiro de Elvas)
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 145 mm x 100mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: ElvasBM 11973
Relationships
Provenance
  • Spain
Contents Contains 65 compositions, 9 from 4 composers, 56 are anonymous.
General Description

A song-book in 2 parts: 63 songs for 3 voices in Portuguese and Castilian; and 35 song-texts without music. All works are transmitted anonymously. The Spanish pieces are early sixteenth century, the Portuguese pieces from the 1st half and the 3rd quarter of the sixteenth century, the latter section showing Italian influence.

Music is copied only in the first section of the manuscript (ff. 40-104); the second section (ff. 1-36) contains texts with no music. Copied in Spain. Perhaps sixteenth-century, though possibly compiled as late as the early seventeenth century; the music is of an earlier date. One poem securely dated to 1555 offers a terminus post quem.

Apparently once in possession of João Joaquim de Andrade (1790-1859). Later owned by Francisco Paula Santa Clara and Antonio José Torres de Carvalho; rediscovered in 1928 by Manuel Joaquim. Carvalho's library donated to Biblioteca Municipale in Eivas in 1933.

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Physical Description

100 folios, inscribed on the cover "Romances / de/ JJ d'A". Folios 1-39, 50, 05, 107, 109 are missing.

Section 2, the text-only section, has a separate foliation.

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Binding

traces of 18th century binding remain; rebound in 1925. Inscription on cover: 'ROMANCES / de / J.J. d'A.'

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Watermark

Similar to Italian watermarks used until the 1570s

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Foliation

Original foliation in two distinct sections: section I includes ff. 40-49 and 51-104 (ff. 1-39 and f. 50 are missing); section II has its own foliation, 1-36

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Index

No index; an original index may have been part of the section lost from the beginning of the manuscript.

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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65 Spanish secular pieces (3 incomplete)

(Encina)-4, (Escobar)-2, anon-59

100 paper folios, 145 x 100. Original foliation in two distinct sections: section I includes ff. 40-49 and 51-104 (ff. 1-39 and f. 50 are missing); section II has its own foliation, 1-36. 18th-century pasteboard covers. No index; an original index may have been part of the section lost from the beginning of the manuscript. Music is copied only in the first section of the manuscript (ff. 40-104); the second section (ff. 1-36) contains texts with no music. Inscription on cover: "ROMANCES / de / J.J. d'A." Watermarks: Briquet #5926-7.

Ca. 1530-45 (on basis of watermarks). Copied in Spain; apparently once in possession of João Joaquim de Andrade (1790-1859).

Vol 4

49 Spanish secular pieces (3 incomplete), 16 Portuguese secular pieces = 65

(Encina)-4, (Escobar)-3, anon-58

104 paper folios, 145 x 100. Two sections, each with original ink foliation: 40-111 (ff. 1-39, 50, 105, 107, 109 now missing) + 1-36. Music copied only in first section; second section contains texts without music. Modern covers of brown leather, with inscription on spine: "CANCIONEIRO / DA / BIBLIO-TECA / PUBLICA HORTENSIA." Earlier paper covers bore inscription: "ROMANCES / DE / J.J. d'A [= João Joaquim de Andrade]." No index remains. Copied by a single scribe. Watermark resembles Briquet #5927.

Ca. 1530-45 (on basis of watermarks). Copied in Spain; apparently once in possession of João Joaquim de Andrade (1790-1859).

Later owned by Francisco Paula Santa Clara and Antonio José Torres de Carvalho; latter's library donated to Biblioteca Municipale in Eivas in 1933.

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‡ denotes primary source study

Dutton, Brian. 1990-1991. El Cancionero del siglo XV (c1360-1520). 7 vols vols. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca. Notes: discussion of MS.

Ferreira, Manuel Pedro (editor). 1989. Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Públia Hortênsia de Elvas [Facsimile edition].  Lisbon: Instituto Português do Patrimonio Cultural. Notes: facsimile, discussion of MS, inventory.

Miranda, Gil (editor). 1987. The Elvas songbook.  Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology. Notes: edition, transcriptions, inventory, discussion of MS.

Baker, Norma Klein. 1978. An Unnumbered Manuscript of Polyphony in the Archives of the Cathedral of Segovia: Its Provenance and History. University of Maryland, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 524. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); incipits (partial).

Morais, Manuel (editor). 1977. Cancioneiro Musical d'Elvas.  Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian. Notes: edition, transcriptions, inventory, discussion of MS.

Querol Gavaldá, Miguel. 1969. La producción musical de Juan del Encina (1469-1529). Anuário Musical, 24: 121-31. Pages: 121.

Kastner, Macario Santiago (editor). 1959-. Portugaliae Musica.  Lisbon. Pages: XXXI. Notes: physical description; contents list; concordances; texts; facsimile (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Reese, Gustave. 1959. Music in the Renaissance.  New York. Pages: 584.

Anglès, Higinio (editor). 1941-1971. Monumentos de la Mùsica Espanola.  Madrid (later Barcelona, later Rome). Pages: I, 127-8. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Joaquim, Manuel. 1940. O Cancioneiro Musical e Poetico da Biblioteca Publia Hortênsia.  Coimbra. Notes: edition, transcriptions, inventory, discussion of MS; physical description; contents list; texts; facsimile (partial).

Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo (editor). 1890. Cancionero Musical de los Siglos XV y XVI.  Madrid.

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Jonatan Alvarado

Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

“De vos y de mi quexoso” is not the song by Urrede (though it shares a text; it is concordant with the version in Paris.