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Cancioneiro da Vaticana

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The Cancioneiro da Vaticana (Vatican Songbook) is a compilation of troubadour lyrics in the Galician-Portuguese. It was discovered c. 1840 in the holdings of the Vatican Library and was first transcribed by Ernesto Monaci in 1875.

The songbook contains 228 folios with a total of 1205 lyrics that date from the 13th and 14th centuries. The poems belong to the three typical genres of secular cantigas: the cantigas de amigo, cantigas de amor and cantigas de escárnio e maldizer. Even though the texts were meant to be sung, musical notation of the lyrics is missing.

The Cancioneiro da Vaticana, together with the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional (kept in Lisbon), were copied from an earlier manuscript (or manuscripts) around 1525, in Rome Italian at the behest of the Italian humanist Angelo Colocci. The two songbooks are either sister manuscripts or cousins.

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