Cancioneiro da Ajuda

The Cancioneiro is kept in the library of the Ajuda National Palace, a former royal residence located in Lisbon.

It consists of a parchment codex written in Gothic script[citation needed] by three hands and containing illuminated miniatures.

Both the text and the miniatures remained unfinished and not a note of music was written in the space left for it.

The whole codex contains 310 poems, nearly all of them cantigas de amor (male-voiced love songs, though a few are satiric and there are a few male/female dialogs).

An important paleographic transcription was published by American scholar Henry H. Carter in 1941.