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II Macab. 12:34 – 13:11

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, U.61487-61488

Adrian Papahagi, UBB Cluj (CODEX Centre), 2025 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Biblia
Shelfmarks U.61487-61488
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Central Europe
Date of Origin 1301-1350
Script, Hands

One hand, neat textus praescissus. Note the a closed with a hairline, the double morphology of d, the round final -s, the crossed Tironian 7, the unsystematic dotting of the i.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 440 mm
Page Width 310 – 320 mm
Height of Written Area 310 mm
Width of Written Area 220 – 225 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 100 – 102 mm
Number of Lines 26
Line Height 12 mm
Ruling ink

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
Dimensions 460 x 260 mm
More about the Current Condition

The entire height of the original leaf has been preserved.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Pen-flourised initial (red, blue, 2 lines) with tendrils extending amply into the margin. Red/blue running title (in turn-in; it does not show in the picture) and chapter number.

Content

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

      [Et facta collatione, duodecim millia drachmas argenti misit Ierosolymam offerri pro peccatis mortuorum sacri]//ficium bene et religiose de resurrectione cogitans... X [ac populum, qui] nuper paulu//[lum respirasset, ne sineret blasphemis rursus nationibus subdi.]

      (II Macab. 12:34 – 13:11)
    • U_61487_88

History

Origin

Central Europe
Provenance

The two colligata constituting the host volume were printed in Basel in 1569. Previous owner annotations on the title page of U.61487: "Baccalaurey (?) Bernardini manu propria" (s. XVI); "<sub rasura:> E. Giula manu propria" (s. XVI); "Stephani Conradi manu propria" (s. XVII); "Laurent<ius> Dalnaki". Dálnoki Nagy Lőrinc (1614-1661) was a teacher at the Unitarian College in Cluj in the 1630s and 1640s. He left his book to the Unitarian College ("Ecclesiae Unitariensis Claudiopolitanae", s. XVII).

Host Volume

Title U.61487 – De sphaera libri quatuor, ex italico in Latinum sermonem conversi. Eiusdem compendium de cognoscendis stellis fixis: et de magnitudine terrae et aquae liber unus, itidem Latinus factus. Joan. Nicol. Stupano rheto interprete. Compendium de cognoscendis stellis fixis de magnitudine terrae et aquae della grandezza della terra et dell'aqua delle stelle fisse libro uno, Basel: per Peter Perna, 1568 (USTC 610712). U.61488 – Pitatus, Petrus, Verae solaris atque lunaris anni quantitatis aliarumque rerum ad calendarii Romani emendationem pertinentium: de ortu item atque occasu stellarum fixarum explicatio. Opus iam olim a Petro Pitato veronensi mathematico conscriptum nunc verò denuò revisum et diligentißimè castigatum, Basileae: per Petrum Pernam, 1568 (USTC 700562).
Date of Origin/Publication 1568
Shelfmark U.61487-61488
Remarks

Former shelfmarks: D.20 (ink, spine, s. XVII?); R. 516 (s. XVIII?, title page of first vol.); B. V. 14 (pencil, s. XIX-XX, front pastedown). A 16th-c. hand wrote the estimated price of the volume: "Aestimatus d. 32" (front pastedown). 
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