El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, MS T.I.1

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El Escorial MS T.j.I ("E2"), also known as Códice Rico, is the third of the four surviving manuscripts that preserve the Cantigas repertoire, settings in a narrative format relating to Marian's miracles and festivities. Although incomplete, "E2" is considered the most important thanks to its miniatures. It is made up of 256 folios of parchment, written in the elegant French script of the 13th-century codices. Originally the manuscript contained 200 cantigas, but the loss of some folios has reduced the count to 196.

The authorship of the poems is unknown – research guessed that the Galician poet Airas Nunes may have had a part but also King Alfonso X is believed to be the author of some pieces.

This codex was lavishly illustrated with 1,257 miniatures and depicts a vast array of human typologies in 13th-century Spain. Only one of the illustrations is divided into eight vignettes (the one belonging to the first cantiga), while the others have six. Two of these miniatures portray important aspects of Alfonso's life and cultural activities.

The first one is on fol. 4v and it fills the entire first column. Under a gothic arch supported by two columns, the king is seated with a parchment in his hand with the inscription "Because composing songs is an art which requires great understanding, therefore he who undertakes it must have this quality", which are the words that begin the Prologue B. There are three singers in each of the side arches, holding parchments in their hands.

The second miniature is on fol. 5 where the Alfonso X is also represented seated under a central arch, with an open book on a table, and in the adjoining arches, two scribes write the cantigas the king is dictating to them. The writing shows letters on a musical staff. In the last arch, on the right of the king, stand three musicians with vihuelas de arco and vihuelas de péñola; and in the left one, there are four singers with tonsure.

Some scholars argue that El Escorial's "Codice Rico" and the Florentine one (Bibl. Nazionale Centrale, Banco Rari 20) were part of one work that was to contain 300+ cantigas, however, there is a difference in the organization of the miniatures in the two sources.

The musical notation of the cantigas follows forms similar to that used for Gregorian chant but with some hybrid shapes that give information (ambiguously) on the length of the notes. The metrics of the poems are extraordinarily diverse (280 different forms for all 420 surviving cantigas), the most common being virelai and rondeau.

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#1 Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, el Códice Rico

Madrid: Testimonio Compañía Editorial, 2011

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, MS T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial
Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, MS T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial
Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, MS T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial
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Cantigas de Santa Maria, El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, MS T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial
Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo, MS T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial
Facsimile edition by Testimonio Compañía Editorial
  • Commentary (English, Portuguese, Spanish) by Fernández Fernández, Laura; Ruiz Souza, Juan C.; Fidalgo Francisco, Elvira; Fernández Ordóñez, Inés; De Ayala, Carlos
  • Limited Edition: 980 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Cantigas de Santa Maria: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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#2 Cantigas de Santa María

Madrid: Edilan, 1979

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan

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Cantigas de Santa Maria, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, Ms. T.I.1, Facsimile edition by Edilan
Facsimile edition by Edilan
  • Commentary (Spanish) by Lopez Serrano, Matilde; Filgueira Valverde, Jose; Guerrero Lovillo, Josè; Llorens, Josè M.
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Cantigas de Santa Maria: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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