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>
- 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.