Masses from the Renaissance:
Look and Listen
CoimU 2: Bibliotecas da Universidade de Coimbra MS M.2
OVERVIEW
Size: 565 x 380 i + 203 + i paper folios; no index; foliation in red ink up to 25, modern foliation in pencil made after the many lost folios- these probably contributing to the mis-sequences of pages in the present binding; considerable damage to some folios; top right-hand of f. 203r torn away; water damage, sometimes considerable, on ff. 179v-187r & 197v-202v; blank folio separates each item.
Scribe: unknown single scribe; somewhat prone to errors some of which have been corrected in the source; many others left unattended to.
Place and Brief History: copied probably in the Netherlands but not from the Alamire scriptorium.
Date: inscription on f. 157v "Noel Balduwin pie memorie" indicates source copied after 1530.
Covers and Decoration: tooled brown leather but not original covers; calligraphic initials in black ink other than ff. 1v-2r & 34v-35r where red ink is used; red ink for the mass text Ihesu criste/Ihesum cristum and Et homo factus est (but not on ff. 107v-113r) and also for cantus firmi texts when supplied; red ink used for other rubrics and voice ensemble indicators.
Literature:
Charles Hamm & Herbert Kellman (eds), Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, Renaissance Manuscript Studies I, vol. I, American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart, 1979, p. 157.
THE MANUSCRIPT
Contents:
1v-21r |
Johannes Mouton - pie memorie |
Missa Verbum bonum et suaue [incomplete] |
22v-33v |
Adrianus Willart |
Missa Laudate deum- up to Sanctus discantus/tenor |
34v-50r |
Petrus Mollue |
Missa Mittit ad virginem [incomplete] |
50v bis-56v |
Missa allemaigne- Kyrie and most of Gloria |
|
57r-59v |
Missa Sancta trinitas-contratenor/bassus of Qui tollis and up to discantus/tenor of 2nd part of Patrem |
|
60r-68r |
Johannes mouton |
Missa allemaigne- contratenor/bassus of 2nd part of Patrem onwards |
69v-86r |
Missa Iste confessor domini sacratus |
|
87v-103v |
Johannes mouton - pie memorie |
Missa sancta trinitas- Kyrie to discantus/tenor of Qui tollis, then contratenor/bassus of 2nd part of Patrem onwards but no Agnus [III] |
104v-121r |
Missa Aue maria |
|
122v-137r |
Missa Cum iocunditate |
|
138vv-156r |
[AdrianWillaert] |
Missa Benedicta es celorum regina [incomplete] |
157v-178r |
Noel balduwin - pie memorie |
Missa Inuiolata |
179v-183v |
Noel balduwin |
Missa Quam pulchra- Kyrie and fragments of Gloria |
183r bis-184v |
Johannes mouton |
Missa allemaigne- contratenor/bassus of 2nd part of Qui tollis and most of Patrem |
185r-193r |
Noel balduwin |
Missa Quam pulchra- tenor/bassus of Et iterum trio then remainder of mass |
194r-197r |
Adrianus Willart |
Missa Laudate deum- from Sanctus contratenor/bassus onwards
|
198r-203r |
Anonymous |
Credo à7 [incomplete] |
Folio information and variants:
ff. 50v bis-137r + 183v-185r 
(44 pages)