Songbook Colocci-Brancuti

Cancioneiro Colocci-Brancuti

The songbook Colocci-Brancuti is one of the three songbooks in which Galician-Portuguese medieval songs have been preserved. It receives this name for having been found in the library of Count Paolo Brancuti di Cagli, in Ancona (Italy), in 1878, and for the known fact of having been owned by the humanist A. Colocci, who numbered the folios and wrote in it several marginal notes. It is also called Songbook of the National Library (of Lisbon), as it acquired it in 1924

It is a copy of the beginning of the sixteenth century, containing 1567 compositions, distributed in 335 pages. Of the three Galician-Portuguese songbooks, it is the one that collects a greater number of songs. All the genres are represented: the cantigas de amigo, the cantigas de amor, and the songs of derision and cursing. It is possible that both this songbook and that of the Vatican Library are copies of an earlier manuscript, thought to have been compiled in the first half of the fourteenth century by Pedro de Portugal, Count of Barcelos.

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