The Cancionero de la Colombina or Cancionero Musical de la Colombina (CMC) is a Spanish manuscript (Ms. 7-1-28) containing Renaissance music from the second half of the 15th century.DIAMM - Source: E-Sc Ms. 7-1-28
The manuscript was copied during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, possibly between the 1460s and the 1480s. Therefore, it predates the more famous Cancionero de Palacio. The first half of the manuscript is the work of two main scribes, and the second half was completed by six other scribes. It originally comprised 106 folios, 8 of which are lost. The general condition of the remaining folios is less than satisfactory. A title added on a later period reads "Cantilenas vulgares puestas en musica por varios Españoles" (Popular melodies set to music by various Spaniards).
The Cancionero de la Colombina has been related with the court of the powerful dukes of Medina Sidonia who lived in Seville and had contacts with Juan de Triana, the main composer of the manuscript.
In 1534 it was bought by the second son of Christopher Columbus, the bibliophile Ferdinand Columbus, who added it to his rich Sevillian library of more than 15,000 volumes known by the name of "Columbine Library" (in Spanish, "Biblioteca Colombina"). After his death, the library was transferred to the Seville Cathedral, where it remains up to this day.
The Cancionero currently contains 95 musical settings, some of which are incomplete. Of this total, 53 remain anonymous. The authorship of several works could be established because they had been properly attributed in other cancioneros, especially the Cancionero de Palacio and the Cancionero de Montecassino.
The repertory in the manuscript is varied. Among the musical genres can be found canciones, villancicos, romances and ensaladas. Many of the villancicos and canciones are sacred, mostly Marian. Two of the works are in French and 12 are liturgical compositions in Latin. There are also two short versions in Castilian of the Song of the Sibyl ("El Cant de la Sibil·la"), nos. 73 and 91 ("Juysio fuerte será dado").
List of works
NºTitleVoicesComposerRemarks 1 Amor de penada gloria 3 Anonymous 2 Pues con sobra de tristura 4 Enrique 3 Canten todos bos en grito 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete) 4 Gentil dama non se gana 3 Johannes Cornago 5 O pena que me conbates 1-2 Juan de Triana (incomplete) 6 Muy crueles bozes dan 3 Anonymous 7 Señora, non me culpeys 3 Anonymous 8 Doncella por cuyo amor 3 J. Rodríguez Torote 9 Nunca fue pena mayor 3 Juan de Urrede Text by García Álvarez de Toledo10 Dónde estás, que non te veo 3 Johannes Cornago 11 Muy triste será mi vida 4 Juan de Urrede 12 Oya tu merçed y crea 3 Anonymous 13 Tanto quanto me desplase 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete)14 Qu'es mi vida, preguntays 4 Johannes Cornago /Johannes Ockeghem 15 Non puedo si non querer 3 Anonymous 16 Mis tristes, tristes sospiros 3 Anonymous 17 Ay que non sé rremediarme 3 Juan de León 18 Pues que Dios te fizo tal 3 Johannes Cornago 19 Con temor vivo ojos tristes 3 Juan de Triana 20 Siempre creçe mi serviros 3 Juán Fernández de Madrid 21 Quanto mi vida biviere 3 Anonymous 22 Señora, qual soy venido 3 Johannes Cornago / Juan de Triana Text by Íñigo López de Mendoza23 De mi perdida esperança 3 Juan de Triana 24 Pues mi dicha non consiente 3 Belmonte 25 Vive leda si podrás 3 Anonymous 26 Dama mi grand querer 3 Móxica 27 Porque más sin duda creas 3 Johannes Cornago 28 No puedes quexar, amor 3 Juan de Triana 29 Laudate eum omnes angeli 2 Anonymous 30 Mi querer tanto vos quiere 4 Enrique 31 Mirando dama fermosa 3 Anonymous 32 De vos y de mi quejoso 3 Juan de Urrede 33 Andad, passiones, andad 3 Pedro de Lagarto 34 Quién vos dio tal señorio 4 Juan de Triana 35 Ya de amor era partido 3 Juan de Triana 36 De vida que tanto enoja 1-2 Anonymous 37 Pues no mejora mi suerte 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete)38 Al dolor de mi cuydado 3 Juan Pérez de Gijón 39 Omni potentem 2 Anonymous 40 No tenga nadie sperança 3 Hurtado de Xerés 41 (no title) 2 Anonymous 42 Con temor de la mudança 3 Hurtado de Xerés 43 No consiento ni me plaze 3 Juan de Triana 44 Quanta gloria me dio veros 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete)45 (no title) 4 Anonymous 46 Agnus 4 Anonymous 47 Sanctus 4 Anonymous 48 Dime, triste coraçón 4 Francisco de la Torre 49 Amar es servir 3 Anonymous 50 Mortales son los dolores 3 Anonymous 51 Pensamiento ve do vas 4 Anonymous 52 Olvida tu perdiçión 3 Anonymous 53 Quien tiene vida en esperança 3 Anonymous 54 Niña y viña 3 Anonymous 55 O gloriosa Domina 3 Anonymous 56 Es la vida que cobré 3 Anonymous 57 Propiñan de Melyor 3 Anonymous Instrumental58 A quello trate domingo 3 Anonymous 59 Nuevas te traygo carillo 3 Anonymous /Juan del Encina Instrumental60 (no title) 1 Anonymous 61 Los hombres con gran plazer 3 Anonymous 62 Merçed, merçed le pidamos 3 Anonymous 63 Salve, sancta parens 4 Anonymous 64 Reyna muy esclareçida 3 Anonymous 65 Buenas nuevas de alegria 3 Anonymous 66 Deus in adjutorium 3 Juan de Triana 67 Tu valer me da gran guera 3 Juanes 68 In exitu Israel de Egipto 4 Anonymous 69 Maravillome del syno me del santiguome 3 Juan de Triana 70 Pinguele rrespinguete 3 Juan de Triana 71 La moça que las cabras cría 4 Juan de Triana 72 A los maytines era 5 Anonymous 73 Juysio fuerte será dado 4 Anonymous 74 Virgen dina de honor 4 Anonymous 75 Que bonito niño chiquito 4 Anonymous 76 (no title) 3 Anonymous 77 Qui fecit celum 3 Anonymous 78 Ay, Santa Maria 3 Anonymous 79 Dic nobis Maria 4 Anonymous 80 Benedicamus Domino 3 Juan de Triana 81 Benedicamus Domino 3 Juan de Triana 82 Juste judex Jesu Christe 3 Juan de Triana 83 (no title) 3 Anonymous 84 (no title) 4 Anonymous 85 Quia 3 Anonymous Instrumental86 ¿Querer vieja yo? / Non puedo dexar /Que non sé filar 3 Juan de Triana 87 De la momera je n'estay 4 Johannes Ockeghem 88 Por beber, comadre 3 Juan de Triana 89 Aquella buena mujer 3 Juan de Triana 90 Dinos, madre del donsel 3 Juan de Triana 91 Juysio fuerte será dado 4 Juan de Triana 92 ¿Cómo no le andaré yo? 3 Anonymous 93 Pues que non tengo 3 Anonymous 94 Le pure amant qui est 3 Anonymous Instrumental95 No tenga con vos amor 3 Anonymous
Bibliography Historia de la música española. Vol 2. Desde el Ars Nova hasta 1600. Samuel Rubio. Alianza Editorial. Madrid. 1983. El cancionero musical de la Colombina (siglo XV). Transcripción y estudio por Miguel Querol Gavaldá. 2a ed. Madrid. 1989. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Monumentos históricos de la música española Collection. Anglés, Higinio. La música en la Corte de los Reyes Católicos. C.S.I.C. Madrid. 1960 Gómez Fernández, Lucía. Música, nobleza y mecenazgo: los duques de Medina Sidonia en Sevilla y Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1445-1615). Universidad de Cádiz. Cádiz. 2017. Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus. Robert Louis Stevenson. Hyperion Pr. 1979. 0883558726 Sources, MS, §IX, 22: Renaissance polyphony: Spanish and Portuguese cathedral manuscripts. Grove Music Online.
References
External links Texts: https://web.archive.org/web/20090416113508/http://cancionerovirtual.liv.ac.uk/AnaServer?dutton+0+start.anv+ms=SV&sms=1 List of works: https://web.archive.org/web/20100202064340/http://saulbgroen.nl/pdf/r4.pdf