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Graduale

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 40

Adrian Papahagi, UBB Cluj (CODEX Centre), 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Graduale
Shelfmarks Fragm. Cod. Lat. 40
Former Shelfmarks R.85997
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Bohemia (Prague?)
Date of Origin 1401 – 1500
Script, Hands

One hand, Northern Textualis. Note the spiking of most letters.

Original Condition

Page Height 380 – 420 mm
Page Width 270 – 300 mm
Height of Written Area 270 – 280 mm
Width of Written Area 195 – 200 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 195 – 200 mm
Number of Lines 7 – 8
Line Height 15 mm
Ruling red staves

Current Condition

Extent About 1/4 of the original leaf.
Dimensions 165 x 230 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment is badly damaged, torn, and difficult to read. It was detached from the host volume and received the current shelfmark in May 2026.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

  • Musical Notation

    Bohemian (Prague) rhombic musical notation on red four-line staves.

    • Content

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

        Tractus

        (recto) [Tc. Videntes autem discipuli indignati sunt dicentes: Ut quid per]//dicio hec? Potuit enim istud venundari multo et dari pauperibus. Sciens autem Iesus ait illis: Quid molesti estis huic mulieri? Opus enim bonum operata est in me. Nam semper pauperes habetis vobiscum me autem non senper ha//[betis]… (verso) At illi consti]//tuerunt ei triginta argenteos. Et exinde querebat oportunitatem ut eum morti traderet. Prima autem die azymorum accesserunt discipuli ad Iesum dicentes: Ubi vis paremus tibi comedere pascha? At Iesus dixit: Ite in civitatem ad quemdam et dicite ei//[: magister dicit: Tempus meum prope est, apud te facio Pascha cum discipulis meis.] (Mat. 26: 8-11, 15-18)
      • Recto

    History

    Origin

    Bohemia (Prague?) on account of the musical notation.
    Provenance

    The host book belonged to several related persons, who wrote on the title page: "Suorum Jehova Custos. Stephani Kapossi"; "nunc Samueli Kaposi S. Td."; "Andreae P. Kaposi? M. Dr.". Stephen Kaposi (d. 1682), born in Nagykapos (now Veľké Kapušany, Slovakia), was a Reformed scholar who had studied in Franeker, Leiden and Utrecht in 1645-1647. Sámuel Kaposi Juhász (1660–1713) was a professor in Alba Iulia; his list of books survives at the Central University Library in Cluj, but this book does not appear on the list. (cf. art. by Dávid Csorba). 
    Persons and Institutions Kaposi, Samuel, 1660-1713: owner of the host volume

    Host Volume

    Title Jonston, John, Thaumatographia naturalis, in decem classes distincta, Amsterdam: apud Willem Jansz Blaeu, 1632 (USTC 1013265).
    Date of Origin/Publication 1632
    Shelfmark R.85997

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