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Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermones in Cantica Canticorum

Sermones XLV.10 – XLVI.1-2

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Alba Iulia, Biblioteca Batthyaneum, Fragm. A.29

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

General Information

Title Bernardus Claraevallensis, Sermones in Cantica Canticorum
Shelfmarks Fragm. ms. A.29
Former Shelfmarks P3 VII 9
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1151-1200
Script, Hands

One hand, Praegothica. Note the two morphologies of d and final -s; the unsystematic presence of feet applied to minims (cf. carmine and amoris, l. 2); the coexistence of initial v- and u-, and of & and uncrossed Tironian 7. 

Original Condition

Page Height 220 – 240 mm
Page Width 140 – 160 mm
Height of Written Area 195 mm
Width of Written Area 120 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 120 mm
Number of Lines 28
Line Height 7 mm
Ruling drypoint

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 217 x 157 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment is still attached to the boards of the original binding. The entire text block has been preserved. The margins are partially turned in. Note however the presence of prickings in the outer margin, which indicates that the margin is almost complete. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Foliated initial (red, black, 4 lines). 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Sermones in Cantica canticorum
    • Content Description

      [Sermo XLV.10]

      [Audi deinde quomodo] tripudiat ad aspectum affatumque dilecti, et coram ipso nuptiali carmine quae amoris sunt gratulabunda decantat... X ... liberius exultemus et laetemur in ea ad laudem et gloriam sponsi ipsius Iesu Christi d<omini> n<ostri> qui est [super omnia deus] b<enedictus> in s<aecula>. Amen.

      [Sermo XLVI.1-2]

      [Lectulus noster floridus, tigna d<omorum> n<ostrarum> c<edrina> l<aquearia> [nostra] cypressina [Cantic. I, 15, 16]. Epitalamium canit, cubile et thalamos pulchro sermone describens... X ...Porro domos populares conventus intellige christianorum, quos hi qui in sublimitate positi sunt, christiani utique utriusque ordinis principes quasi tigna parietes iustis impositis legibus fortiter stringunt ne sua quique lege vel voluntate viventes, tanquam// [parietes inclinati et maceriae depulsae dissideant a semetipsis, et sic omnis structura aedificii corruens dissipetur.] (PL 183, col. 1004A-C)
    • Alba_Iulia_Fragm_A_29
    • Edition Migne, PL 183, col. 1004A-C

History

Origin

Germany or Austria? (cf. provenance of host volume)
Provenance

In the 17th c., the host volume passed from the archdiocese of Eger, Hungary to the Jesuits of Vienna: "Alienatus (?) Agriensis Episcopatus Sub cura Patrum Piorum Societatis Jesu Viennae Catalogo inscriptus".

Another ownership note is blotted and illegible. 

Host Volume

Title Contzen, Adam, De Unione Et Synodo Generali Evangelicorum Theologis Et Politicis necessaria consultatio, Auctore R. P. Adamo Contzen Societ. Jesu..., Moguntiae: Sumpt. Bernardi Gualtheri, excudebat Ioannes Volmari, 1615. (USTC 2132889)
Date of Origin/Publication 1615
Place of Origin/Publication Mainz
Shelfmark P3 VII 9
Conditions of Deposit Aula Magna
Remarks

The book was rebound around 1900, after the original binding (containing the manuscript fragment) was extracted.

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