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Sermones

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 23

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

General Information

Title Sermones
Shelfmarks Fragm. Cod. Lat. 23
Former Shelfmarks C.80638
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Central Europe (Vienna?)
Date of Origin 1351-1400
Script, Hands

One hand, hybrid script. Note the uncrossed Tironian et (which may indicate Austrian origin), dotting the i (hairline tending towards a circumflex shape),  

Original Condition

Page Height 290 – 300 mm
Page Width 205 – 210 mm
Height of Written Area 185 – 200 mm
Width of Written Area 130 – 135 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 130 – 135 mm
Number of Lines 24 – 25
Line Height 7 – 8 mm
Ruling drypoint? (invisible)
More about the Condition

About 5-6 lines are missing from the bottom of the text. 

Current Condition

Extent top 1/2 of the original leaf
Dimensions 160 x 204 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment was detached from the host book and was restored at the National Unity Museum of Alba Iulia in September-October 2025, with funds from the project PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0465, "Medieval Books in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Cluj in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (PI Adrian Papahagi). 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Highlighted initials (1 line).

Content

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

      (hair side:) //erunt. Fatue vero habitis vasis oleo caruerunt. Prudentes virgines ergo multipliciter oleum in vasis sumpserunt, habuerunt enim oleum misericordie et caritatis prout de utroque dari potest exemplum illius samaritani qui saucio corpori vinum et oleum infundens vulnera alligavit. Habuerunt oleum leticie quo earum sponsus Christus pre participibus suis unctus est qui possit ypocritas qui quicquid facere norunt interstitia faciunt. Contra quos dicit ewangelium: Cum ieiunatis nolite fieri sicut ypocrite tristes  etc. [Mat. 6: 16] Unge caput tuum oleo. Similiter in ecclesia militante unxerunt oleum cathecumenorum per fidei recepcionem, oleum crismatis per confirmacionem, oleum infirmorum in mortis extrema unctione. Similiter habuerunt oleum sanctum per bonam operacionem quo David rex unctus est, de quo loquitur in psalmo: Inveni David servum oleo sancto unxi eum [Ps. 89: 20]. Hoc igitur oleum virgines in vasis suis acceperunt obviamque suo sponso ierunt et cum eo celestes nupcias introierunt. Ad vos ergo sorores et filie procacissime presentis obsecrationis et caritatis sermo dirigitur atque utinam fructuosus v... enim erexistis cum Iacob lapidem [...] Christum [...] lapidem angularem ubi desuper perfu[....] Domino reddistis v//...

      (flesh side:) // clamor... fletibus... pulsant violencia adveniam?.... dissoluit... X ...insompnes repetitis et vacuat sepe... ...divinum officium neg// 
    • Hair_side

History

Origin

Vienna, like the host volume?
Provenance

The host volume was printed in Vienna in 1629. In the 17th c. it was owned by the Jesuits of Cluj-Mănăștur ("Domus Monostoriensis Soc. Iesu", title page). In the 19th c. it belonged to the Catholic high school of Cluj ("Bibliotheca Lycaei Claudiopolitani 1833", front flyleaf). 

Host Volume

Title Beatus Humbertus (Romanus), De Tribus Votis Essentialibus Religionis aliisque virtutibus eis annexis; Item S. Vincentius Ferrarius, Ordinis Praedicatorum De vita Spirituali, & brevi methodo perveniendi ad perfectionem; Item Dialogus brevis S. Catharinae Senensis, eiusdem Ordinis De acquirenda vera perfectione..., Viennae Austriae: apud Matthaeum Formicam, Anno 1629. (USTC 2169636)
Date of Origin/Publication 1629
Shelfmark C.80638
Persons Vincent Ferrier, 1350-1419, saint: Author Catharina Senensis, s., 1347-1380: Author
Conditions of Deposit Unbound, in a box; to be rebound.
Remarks

Former shelfmarks: N6 C 513; 29.N.10; 100.E.28.
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