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Sundays after Pentecost and De Sapientia

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Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Private Collection, Canada, Fr.G1-8

Private Catalogue, Canada, 2025. (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Binding fragment (Sundays after Pentecost and De Sapientia)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany [?]

Current Condition

Dimensions 243 mm x 54 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment was initially part of a non-continuous bifolium with each half written in a double column format. It was recovered from a binding, where it was likely used to reinforce the spine of its host volume. Sewing stations from the host volume are visible. On the bottom of the right-side of the recto are remnants of printed text. There is some fading throughout, particularly on the bottom-half of the verso. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Some initials are penned in red ink. Rubrication is also penned in red.

Content

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      The fragment contains text used for multiple Sundays after Pentecost with text from the Summer Histories, mainly De Sapientia, interspersed. In the first column on the left-half of the recto is part of Pseudo-Origen’s Homilia V in Matthaeum 7:15-21, which was typically used during Dom. 8 p. Pentecost. It also contains a responsory (Magna enim sunt judicia tua) and versicle (Deduxisti sicut oves populum tuum) used for De Sapientia. The second column from this half contains text used during Dom. 8 or 9 p. Pentecost: an antiphon (Attendite a falsis prophetis), Romans 8:14-15, and an additional antiphon that is partially cut off (Non potest arbor bona fructus) for the Magnificat at second vespers. The right-half of the recto, where only the first column is discernable, contains text associated with Dom. 2 p. Pentecost: 1 John 3:13-14 and a collect (Sancti nominis tui Domine). A responsory (Audi domine), often used for De Regum, is flanked between these two texts and partially concealed beneath the fold. On the left-half of the verso, where only the second column is discernable, there is an antiphon (Quidam homo fecit cenam magnam) used during Dom. 2 or 3 p. Pentecost. Both columns on the right-half of the verso predominantly contain text used for De Sapientia: part of a responsory (Da mihi domine sedium tuarum), versicle (Domine pater et deus vitae), Proverbs 1:20-22 (Sapientia foris praedicat), another responsory (Initium sapientiae), and part of a versicle (Dispersit dedit pauperibus). The end of the second column on this side also contains Matthew 7:15, associated with Dom. 8 or 9 p. Pentecost.

History

Provenance

The fragment was purchased from That Guy with the Books (Zubairul Islam) on 1 July 2025. It was part of a collection of binder’s waste acquired in Germany.

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