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Oratio ad crucem adorandam

Prayer to the Holy Cross

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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0506

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title <i>Oratio ad Crucem adorandam</i>
Shelfmarks Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0506
Page/Folio Reference upper flyleaf
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Eastern France
Date of Origin second third 9th century (ca. 833-866)
Script, Hands

Main text in Carolina, with headings in Capitalis.

Original Condition

Page Height 207 mm
Page Width 151 mm
Height of Written Area 172 – 174 mm
Width of Written Area 122 – 123 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 122 – 123 mm
Number of Lines 32
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling Full blind-point ruling
More about the Condition

Prickings visible in outer margin (used for ruling).

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf (in situ)
Dimensions 210 x 155 mm
More about the Current Condition

Front flyleaf r contains a 15th-century table of content for the host volume.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

No decoration visible.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title <i>Oratio ad Crucem adorandam</i>
    • upper flyleaf v
    • Remarks

      Prayer to the Holy Cross.

History

Provenance

Host volume belonged to St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier (Germany) in the twelfth century.

Host Volume

Title Halitgarius Cameracensis, <i>Poenitentiale</i>
Date of Origin/Publication second half 9th century
Place of Origin/Publication Western Germany
Shelfmark Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS.0506
Page/Folio Reference: fol. 1-114
Persons Halitgarius Cameracensis (author of host volume); Gregorius I (author of host volume); Theodulphus Aurelianensis (author of host volume)
Remarks

Host volume also contains different canonistic and liturgical texts, by Gregorius I and Theodulphus Aurelianensis, among others.

Bibliography

  • Bischoff, Bernhard, and Birgit Ebersperger, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998), vol. 1, p. 289.
  • Derolez, Albert, Medieval Manuscripts: Ghent University Library (Ghent: Snoeck, 2017), p. 171.
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