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Antiphonale/Graduale?

Alleluia

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, U.63608

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

General Information

Title Antiphonale/Graduale?
Shelfmarks U.63608
Page/Folio Reference wrapper
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Central Europe
Date of Origin 1475-1525
Script, Hands

One hand, late Northern textualis.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Line Height 38 – 40 mm
Ruling red staves
More about the Condition

Height of 4-line staves: 40 mm. The fragment is too small to allow further calculations. However, given the line height, one can infer that this was a large choir book (c. 600 x 420 mm). 

Current Condition

Extent about 1/10 of the original leaf
Dimensions 290 x 195 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Simple blue initial, 2 lines (65 mm). 
  • Musical Notation

    Square Gothic musical notation on red staves (four lines).

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Antiphonale/Graduale?
      • Content Description

        Allel[uia].
      • U_63608
      • Remarks

        There is too little text to infer the type of choir book, as Alleluia figures in both antiphonals and graduals, and in different genres.

    History

    Origin

    Central Europe?
    Provenance

    The host book was printed in Strasbourg in 1522, and by 1627 (?) it was in Transylvania (cf. title page). 
    Persons and Institutions Previous owners of the host book: 'Samuelis Jarai Transylvani Anno 1627 (?)'; 'Laur. Dalnaki'; 'Ecclesiae Unitariensis Claudiopolitanae' (title page of host book). Dálnoki Nagy Lőrinc (1614-1661) was a teacher at the Unitarian College in Cluj in the 1630s and 1640s.

    Host Volume

    Title Ad reverendum in Christo p. Et illustrem principem Christophorum episcopum Basiliensem, epistola apologetica Erasmi Roterodami, de interdicto esu carnium, deque similibus hominum constitutionibus. Cum aliis nonnullis novis, Argentorati: in aedibus Joannis Knoblouchii, 1522 (USTC 609072).
    Date of Origin/Publication 1522
    Shelfmark U.63608
    Persons Dálnoki Nagy Lőrinc (1614-1661): previous owner of host volume
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