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.[1]
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.[2]
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").
| Nº | Title | Voices | Composer | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 5 | O pena que me conbates | 1-2 | (incomplete) | |
| 6 | Muy crueles bozes dan | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 7 | Señora, non me culpeys | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 8 | Doncella por cuyo amor | 3 | ||
| 9 | Nunca fue pena mayor | 3 | Text by García Álvarez de Toledo | |
| 10 | Dónde estás, que non te veo | 3 | ||
| 11 | Muy triste será mi vida | 4 | ||
| 12 | Oya tu merçed y crea | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 13 | Tanto quanto me desplase | 1-2 | Anonymous | (incomplete) |
| 14 | Qu'es mi vida, preguntays | 4 | ||
| 15 | Non puedo si non querer | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 16 | Mis tristes, tristes sospiros | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 17 | Ay que non sé rremediarme | 3 | ||
| 18 | Pues que Dios te fizo tal | 3 | ||
| 19 | Con temor vivo ojos tristes | 3 | ||
| 20 | Siempre creçe mi serviros | 3 | ||
| 21 | Quanto mi vida biviere | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 22 | Señora, qual soy venido | 3 | Text by Íñigo López de Mendoza | |
| 23 | De mi perdida esperança | 3 | ||
| 24 | Pues mi dicha non consiente | 3 | Belmonte | |
| 25 | Vive leda si podrás | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 26 | Dama mi grand querer | 3 | ||
| 27 | Porque más sin duda creas | 3 | ||
| 28 | No puedes quexar, amor | 3 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 33 | Andad, passiones, andad | 3 | ||
| 34 | Quién vos dio tal señorio | 4 | ||
| 35 | Ya de amor era partido | 3 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 39 | Omni potentem | 2 | Anonymous | |
| 40 | No tenga nadie sperança | 3 | ||
| 41 | (no title) | 2 | Anonymous | |
| 42 | Con temor de la mudança | 3 | ||
| 43 | No consiento ni me plaze | 3 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | Instrumental |
| 58 | A quello trate domingo | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 59 | Nuevas te traygo carillo | 3 | Instrumental | |
| 60 | (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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 70 | Pinguele rrespinguete | 3 | ||
| 71 | La moça que las cabras cría | 4 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 81 | Benedicamus Domino | 3 | ||
| 82 | Juste judex Jesu Christe | 3 | ||
| 83 | (no title) | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 84 | (no title) | 4 | Anonymous | |
| 85 | Quia | 3 | Anonymous | Instrumental |
| 86 | ¿Querer vieja yo? / Non puedo dexar / Que non sé filar | 3 | ||
| 87 | De la momera je n'estay | 4 | ||
| 88 | Por beber, comadre | 3 | ||
| 89 | Aquella buena mujer | 3 | ||
| 90 | Dinos, madre del donsel | 3 | ||
| 91 | Juysio fuerte será dado | 4 | ||
| 92 | ¿Cómo no le andaré yo? | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 93 | Pues que non tengo | 3 | Anonymous | |
| 94 | Le pure amant qui est | 3 | Anonymous | Instrumental |
| 95 | No tenga con vos amor | 3 | Anonymous | |