Manuscript compiled at the monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra. It was copied from several Santa Cruz manuscripts, including particularly MM 33. Two original scribes, with additions, mostly chant, by different later hands. Prepared with margins and staves in advance of copying the music (cf. Rees 1995, p. 289).
| Archive | Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, Coimbra, Portugal (P-Cug) |
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| Shelfmark | MM.53 |
| Image Availability | DIAMM does not have images of this source. Please refer to the external links for image availability. |
| Surface | Paper |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 312 × 220 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 99 compositions, 57 from 15 composers, 42 are anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Some ink corrosion and bleed-through on several folios, without loss of text
Binding
Old, possibly original, covers made of a parchment folio from a large chant book; remains of leather ties.
Ownership
1 watermark, also occurring in P-Cug MM 44
Ownership
inscription on f. (i)r, ‘Dom Gabriel de S. Joaõ’ [documented in 1624]
Foliation
i + 132 + i; old ink foliation 1-14, 21-89, 91-133; folios 15-20 unnumbered, now with modern blue ink foliation. Folio 90 is missing.
Index
Incomplete, and occasionally inaccurate, index on fol. (i)v
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‡ denotes primary source study
Rees, Owen. 2011. ‘Jesu redemptor’: Polyphonic Funerary Litanies in Portugal. Pure Gold. Golden Age Sacred Music in the Iberian World: A Homage to Bruno Turner, 228-261. Kassel: Reichenberger.
Rees, Owen (editor). 1998. Music by Pedro de Cristo: An Edition of the Motets from Coimbra Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 33. MM, vol. 33. Amsterdam: Harvard Academic Publishers.
Rees, Owen. 1995. Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra. New York & London: Garland. Pages: 283-95.
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