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Missale

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 10

Adrian Papahagi, UBB-Cluj, CODEX Centre, 2021 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Missale
Shelfmarks Fragm. Cod. Lat. 10
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Italy
Date of Origin 1301-1400
Script, Hands

One hand, Southern textualis.
General Remarks

The fragment has an irregular shape, and is very fragile.

Original Condition

Page Height 370 – 385 mm
Page Width 260 – 270 mm
Height of Written Area 240 – 250 mm
Width of Written Area 160 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 75 mm
Number of Lines 31 – 33
Line Height 7 – 8 mm
Ruling plummet ruling on the flesh side
Collation

The text beginning on the right of the flesh side (Pro S. Mauritio et sociis martyribus, 22 Sep.) continues on the left of the hair side (In dedicatione S. Michaelis archangeli, 29 Sep.). The other leaf of the bifolium contains masses for martyrs who were popes (hair side, right) and martyrs who were not popes (flesh side, left).

Current Condition

Extent c. 1/3-2/5 cropped from the bottom of the bifolium
Dimensions 175 x 410 mm
More about the Current Condition

Restored at the National Unity Museum (Alba Iulia) in 2021.

NB: The fragment's shape is irregular: the maximum height x width are quoted.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Fine pen-flourished initials (red/blue). The peculiarity of the pen flourishing consists in the presence of blue elements in the red tendrils, and of red elements in the blue tendrils.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Missale
    • Content Description

      flesh side, right  

      [Pro S. Mauritio et sociis martyribus, 22 Sep.]  

      col. a: [Secr.] Respice quesumus d[omine munera que] in sanctorum martyrum [tuorum mauricii et so]ciorum eius com[memoratione deferimus…]; Postcomm. Celestibus refecti sac[ramentis]…  

      hair side, left  

      [In dedicatione S. Michaelis archangeli, 29 Sep.]  

      col. b: [Secund]um matheum. [In illo tempore] accesserunt discipuli ad Jesum... X Amen di[co uo]bis nisi conuersi fueritis et//[efficiamini sicut paruuli] (Mat. 18:1-3)  

      hair side, right

      [Pro martyre pontifice]  

      col. a: [Or. Infirmitatem nostram respice] //omnipotens deus…; Secr. Hostias tibi domine beati N.<omen> martiris tui atque pontificis…; Postcomm. Refecti participatione muneris sacri quesumus domine deus noster//…  

      col. b: [Lectio libri sapientie. Iustus cor suum tradet…] //Si enim Dóminus magnus uoluerit... X ... et in lege t//[estamenti domini gloriabitur.] (Eccl. 39:8-11).  

      flesh side, left  

      [Pro martyre non pontifice]

      col. a: Beatus homo qui inuenit sapienciam…  

      col. b: Lectio libri sapientie. Iustum deduxit dominus… (Eccl. 10:10-14).
    • flesh_side

History

Origin

Italy
Provenance

The manuscript may have been maculated by the Jesuits of Cluj. On the hair side, an early-modern hand (s. XVII-XVIII) wrote "Jesus Maria".

Host Volume

Remarks

Fragm. Cod. Lat. 8-10 were detached from an unspecified volume at some point in the 19th or 20th century, and were kept in a box until the restoration programme began in 2020.
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