Archive Documentation Center of the Orfeo Català (CEDOC) [formerly: Biblioteca de l'Orfeó Català], Barcelona, Spain (E-Boc)
Shelfmark MS 59
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements 430 x 290 mm
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Provenance
  • Vic? Spain
Contents Contains 68 compositions, 29 from 10 composers, 39 are anonymous.
General Description

A choirbook of 150ff. described on f.1 as a book of responses for Easter, but on f. 149 as a book of responses for Easter and Christmas; it now contains mostly music for Holy Week, but no responses for Christmas. Copied by two main scribes, but with contributions from at least 9 others. Inscriptions on the cover locate the book in the diocese of Vic, and state that it belonged to the parish of S. Miquel in Barcelona in 1643; and composers named are mostly local to that region. (Similar inscriptions of the parish of S. Miquel from the 1620s and 1630s occur at the beginning and end of the book.)

If 'Pedro Egidio Fontseca' is Pedro de Fonseca 'Luzio' (c1610- after 1665), as suggested by Mazuela-Anguita, then the section of his responsories (ff. 76v-85) must have been added in the mid-17th century.

Probably copied in Vic at the instigation of Onofre Maertinez, maestro de capilla at the Cathedral (named in inscription on cover), and later transferred to S. Miquel in Barcelona.

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Physical Description

Remnants of torn-out folios can be found between ff. 9-9, 14-15, 32-33, 44-45, 75-76, 98-99, 122-123 & 148-149 [recte 149-150]. At least 8 folios are missing between ff. 75-76 (perhaps once containing the eight Christmas responsories now missing from the book).

Blank staves on ff. 3, 13v-14, 15, 16, 17v-18, 47v-48, 75v-76, 85v-86, 102v-112, 122v-128, 137v-140.

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Binding

Original binding in leather-covered boards

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Watermark

Bunch of grapes with S B in the middle cf. Briquet #13158 (dating 1531-68)

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Liminary Note

Inscriptions on cover: "Ihs E+S de Mosen [O]noffre Martinez Mestre de Cant de la Seu de + Vic"; and "Es de la iglesia parroquial de Sant Miquel de Barcelona essent mestre de cant Ga... [illegible] 1643"

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Foliation

i + 150 ff. Modern foliation 1-149 leaving folio [141] unnumbered. Modern folios 3-5 have original foliation I, 2, 3, but this foliation is not continued further.

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DIAMM Note

The same set of responsories is repeated twice in this ms, but also found in P-Cug 25 & P-EVp Cód. CLI/1-3. Also copied in non-DIAMM sources E-Bbc 608, E-VAar 3016, P-Cug 47, P-Lf IPSPO I/H-2.

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Inventory

Inventory from Puentes-Blanco 2018

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‡ denotes primary source study

Puentes-Blanco, Andrea. 2018. Música y devoción en Barcelona (ca. 1550-1626): estudio de libros de polifonía, contextos y prácticas musicales. Universitat de Barcelona, Ph. D. Pages: I:63-80, II:167-190. Notes: description, discussion, contents.

Cabré i Cercós, Bernat (editor). 2016. Himnes, motets i responsoris del manuscrit 59. Mestres catalans antics (MCA) : quaderns dels fons musicals de Catalunya, vol. 8.  Vilablareix [Girona]: Fons del Centre de Documentació de L'Orfeó Català.

‡ Cabré i Cercós, Bernat. 2016. El manuscrit 59 del Centre de Documentació de l'Orfeó Català. Nous repertoris, noves perspectives. Revista Catalana de Musicologia, IX: 99-146. Notes: description, discussion, facsimiles (partial), contents.

Mazuela-Anguita, Ascensión. 2016. Polifonia, redes musicales y ceremonias rurales en los Pirineos orientales a traves de las cronicas de Honorat Ciuro (1612-1674). Revista de Musicologia, 39/2: 411-454. Pages: 436-7. Notes: possible identity of Egidio Fontseca with Pedro de Fonseca (relevant to dating ms).

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