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Vincentius Bellovacensis, Speculum historiale

Liber XXIV, cap. xxxix-xl

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, C.59148-50

Andrei Crișan (CODEX Centre, UBB), 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Speculum historiale
Shelfmarks C.59148-50
Page/Folio Reference wrapper
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1251-1300
Script, Hands

One hand, Northern Textualis

Original Condition

Page Height 405 – 410 mm
Page Width 285 – 290 mm
Height of Written Area 285 – 290 mm
Width of Written Area 200 – 205 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 85 – 90 mm
Number of Lines 40 – 41
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling ink ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
Dimensions 260 x 190 mm
More about the Current Condition

Almost the entire width of the text survives. Furthermore, a faint red mark at the top of the fragment (the chapter number), indicates that the upper margin has not suffered much cutting. 

The generous left margin suggests that the fragment represents the verso of the leaf. The fragment is only loosely attached to the cardboard, so that one can read on the recto (not on the picture, inside the binding): the rubric "[De sancto magn]o bodo andegauensi [episcopi]."

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red/blue pen flourished initials (3 lines).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Speculum historiale
    • Content Description

      [Liber XXIV, cap. xxxix]

      (col. a) [Promotus est enim Mauchias a prefato tyranno pretor et amiras totius] // regionis que est ab Egypto usque ad Eufraten. Hac preterea tempestate saraceni qui et thurci dicunt machomet pseudo propheta eis ducatum ... X ... Quem cum diuersas spemes quas [secum mach]umeth attulerat mirarentur ... // 

      (col. b) [... quam ille placare desiderans talibus sermonibus] // demulcebat eam dicens: Quia G[abrielem archan]gelum loquentem mecum contemplor ... X ... Credidit ergo mulier et omnes [arabes et] hysmahelite quod ex me archangeli [Gabrielis illas] susciperet leges quas suis discipulis [dabat eoque] Gabriel archangelus sepe mittat a deo [hominibus sanctis]... 

      [xl] De quibusdam libellis in quibus [agitur de ipsius falaciis] 

      Fertur autem esse libellus in partibus [trans]marinis de mahumethi fa[laciis in quo] legitur... X ... ut uidelicet legem iudeis et [christianis que ni]mirum rigida nimis ac seuera esset mitiorum preceptorum promulgatione temperar//[et]...
    • C_59148_50
    • Remarks

      Cf. https://archive.org/details/LaMerDesHistoires1544/page/n657/mode/1up (pp. 659-59)

History

Origin

The host volume consists of three volumes printed in Germany in the 16th century, of which two were printed in Köln and one in Leipzig. 

The topic of the manuscript fragment, the pen flourished initial, and the proximity of the Rhine makes it is possible that the manuscript was French.
Persons and Institutions In the 17th century, the host volume belonged to the Jesuits of Cluj-Mănăștur: "Domus Colosmonostoriensis Anno 1666" (title page, C.59148). In the 19th century, the host volume was in the collection of the Catholic High School of Cluj: "Bibliotheca R. Lyceii Claudiopolitani, 1832" (title page, C.59148)

Host Volume

Title C.59148: Hesiodu tu askraiu erga kai hemerai. Hesiodi ascraei opera et dies. Una cum duabus praefationibus ac luculentis enarrationibus Philippi Melanchthonis, profuturis etiam ad intelligenda hesiodi praecepta, Leipzig, excudebat Hans Rambau (I), 1566 (USTC 662425?); C.59149: Aurea pythagorae et phocylidis carmina, nunc multò quàm antè, castigatius de Graeco reddita: sic, ut versus versui è regione respondeat, Köln, excudebatur Walther Fabritius, 1553 (USTC 614797); C.59150: Parainesis Isocratis oratoris disertißimi sermo admonitorius, ad demonicum: generosae juventutis moribus formandis idoneus. Eiusdem ad nicoclem oratio, quibus melior euasurus sit princeps: atque adeò omnes, qui publicis funguntur muneribus, Köln, 1566 (USTC 682622).
Date of Origin/Publication C.59148: 1566; C.59149: 1553; C.59150: 1566.
Place of Origin/Publication C.59148: Lepizig; C.59149: Köln; C.59150: Köln.
Shelfmark C.59148-50
Persons Hans Rambau, ?-1579 (printer, C.59148), Walther Fabritius (printer, C.59149)
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