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Missale

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 8

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

General Information

Title Missale
Shelfmarks Fragm. Cod. Lat. 8
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

Fragm. Cod. Lat. 8 and Fragm. Cod. Lat. 9 were cropped from the same bifolium (most likely the second bifolium of the quire).

The text must be read in this order (Fragm. Cod. Lat. 9 - top; Fragm. Cod. Lat. 8 - bottom):

hair side right (*2r); flesh side left (*2v); flesh side right (*7r); hair side left (*7v). NB: *2 and *7 refer to the possible position inside the quire, not to the collation of the original MS.

Current Condition

Extent cropped from the central and lower part of the bifolium
Dimensions 160 x 320 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

At the bottom of the flesh side, the fragment displays a beautiful historiated initial D, featuring the Virgin Mary. The initial introduces the prayer (oratio) "Deus qui de beatae Mariae virginis utero...", read during the Annunciation feast. The quality of the picture, the shape of the blue field, the white tendrils inside the field, and the initially pink veil of the Virgin point to an Italian workshop (see a similar initial in Chalon-sur-Saône, B.M. MS 17 (14), Monaldus Justinopolitanius, Summa de jure canonico, Italy, s. XIV – Initiale).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Missale
    • Content Description
      Fragm. Cod. Lat. 9 and 8 stem from the top and bottom of a bifolium containing the following feasts: ?; S. Damasci (11 Dec.); S. Luciae (13 Dec.); S. Thomae Apostoli (21.12) – f. *2; S. Benedicti abbatis (21 Mar.); Annunciatio S. Mariae (25 Mar.); SS. Tyburcii, Valeriani et Maximini (14 Apr.); S. Georgii (23 Apr.) – f. *7.
       
      hair side, right (= f. *2r?)
      One would expect here In Conceptione Beatae Mariae Virginis.
      flesh side, left (= *2v?)
      col. a: [Responsio in comm.] in uigilia [unius apostoli. Gr.] Nimis honorati [sunt amici tui] deus, nimis confortatus [est principatum] eorum. V. Dinumerabo [eos] et super arenam multiplicabuntur.
      NB: the text written in the lower margin does not appear to be a catchword, since the next passage in the Missale Romanum is "V. Gaudete iusti in domino..." — cf. Vatican, BAV, Arch. Cap. S. Pietro, MS B.63, f. 267r-v (Italy, s. XIV), which I have used to identify the texts of Fragm. Cod. Lat. 8-10.
      flesh side, right (= *7r?)
      [In annunciatione Sancte Marie]
      col. a: [Ps. Eruc]tauit cor meu[m uerbum bonum di]co eg[o opera mea regis; V. Gloria. Or.] Deus qui de beate [marie] uirginis utero [uerbum] tuum angelo nuntiante carn[em]//...
      hair side, left (= *7v?)
      [In S. Georgii]
      col b: [V. Beatus] uir qui suffert tem[ptatio]nem...; Off. Confite//[buntur celi mirabilia tua]...
      NB: The text continues from Fragm. Cod. Lat. 9.
    • hair_side

History

Origin

Italy
Provenance

The manuscript may have been maculated by the Jesuits of Cluj. On the hair side of Fragm. Cod. Lat. 10, which comes from the same MS, 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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