Lectionale/ Homiliarium

Gregorii I Papae, Homilia in Evangelia XXXI

F-72c0

Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, C.II/839

General Information

Title Lectionale/Homiliarium
Shelfmarks C.II/839
Page/Folio Reference wrapper
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Central Europe (Austria?)
Date of Origin 1101-1200
Script, Hands

One hand, Praegothica: open a, two morphologies of d (prevalently straight d), e caudata, both round and straight (prevalent) final s, only ampersand.

Original Condition

Page Height 380 – 400 mm
Page Width 270 – 285 mm
Height of Written Area 265 – 280 mm
Width of Written Area 190 – 200 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 95 – 100 mm
Number of Lines 31 – 33
Line Height 8 – 9 mm
Ruling drypoint

Current Condition

Extent About 3/4 of the original leaf is preserved.
Dimensions 260 x 210 mm
More about the Current Condition

The upper part of the original leaf is missing. The entire width of the right column is preserved, while only about half of the width of the left column survives.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Simple rubricated initial I (4 lines), outside the text block. 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Gregorius I Papa, Homiliae in Evangelia, lib. II, homilia XXXI
    • Content Description

      [Pudeat ergo terrena concupiscere et d]orsa mentiu[m ascendentibus adv]ersariis prebere. [Terram semper intuetur] qui curvus [est et quo praemio sit] redemptus [non meminit qui im]a querit. Hinc [etiam per S. Moysen dicitur] ut qui gibbo [premitur nequaq]uam ad sacerdo[tium provehatur. Et quot]quot Christi san[guine redempti] sumus membra [eiusdem summi sacerd]otis efficimur. ... X ... Hinc rursus [pisces qui pennu]las non habent [ab esu fidelis populi] prohibentur. Pis[ces quippe qui pennu]las squa// (col. b) [marum habent dare etiam saltus super aquas solent. ... X ... Ponatur ante]// oculos mulier curva et arbor infructuosa. Reminiscantur (!) malorum que fecimus mittamus ad radicem cordis cofinum stercoris, ut tunc in retributionis fructu pinguescat quod nobis hic per penitentiam fetebat. Et si virtutum summa operari non possumus ipso deus... X... [Per dominum nostrum] Iesum Christum qui vivit et regnat cum patre in unitate spiritus <MS: spc.> sancti deus, per omnia secula seculorum. Amen. (Gregorius I Papa, Homiliae in Evangelia, lib. II, homilia XXXI; PL 76, col. 1231-1232) ††††† Evangelium s. Matheum. In illo tempore. Accesserunt ad Iesum pharisei et interrogavit eum unus ex// [eis legis doctor tentans eum.] (Mat. 22: 35)

    • C_II_839
    • Edition Migne, PL 76, col. 1231-1232

History

Origin

Central Europe (Graz or Vienna, where the book was printed and was first owned?)

Provenance

The host book was printed in Vienna in 1626, and belonged at one point in the seventeenth century to the Jesuit college in Graz (Austria). A certain Domosi, most likely a youth from Cluj studying in Graz in the seventeenth century, brought the book to Cluj, and gave it to the Jesuit College of Cluj. Annotations: "Collegii Societatis Iesu Graecii <add, alia manu:> Claudiopolitani 1701" (title page); "Domosi habet istum librum" (front flyleaf);  "Bibliotheca Lycei Regalis Claudiopolitani 1831".

Host Volume

Title Catechismus, Seu Epitome, Complectens Tractatus IV. Capita, Et Controversias, Religionem spectantes, 124, Iterato recognitus et auctus Per R.P. Guilielmum Baile, Societatis Iesu Sacerdotem. E Gallico in Latinum idioma versus Ab Henrico Lamormaini Eiusdem Societatis Sacerdote, Viennae Austriae, Propriis expensis et Typis excudebat Matthaeus Formica, anno 1626 (USTC 2058912)
Date of Origin/Publication 1626
Place of Origin/Publication Vienna (Austria)
Shelfmark C.II/839
Persons Guillaume Baile, 1557-1620 (author) Formica, Matthäus ?-1638 (printer)
Remarks

Former shelfmarks: “N7H31”, “II.L.15”, “107.B.16”.