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Antiphonale a.u. Eccl. Transsylvaniae

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 15

Adrian Papahagi, UBB-Cluj, CODEX Centre, 2021 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Antiphonale a.u. Eccl. Transsilvaniae
Shelfmarks Fragm. Cod. Lat. 15
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Transylvania (Cluj?)
Date of Origin 1401-1450
Script, Hands

One hand, neat Gothic textus praescissus.

Original Condition

Page Height 500 mm
Page Width 345 mm
Height of Written Area 355 – 360 mm
Width of Written Area 230 – 240 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 230 – 240 mm
Number of Lines 7
Line Height 20 – 25 mm
Ruling only staves, red ink
Collation

Four fragments from the original MS have been discovered so far. In the order of the text, they are:

1. Cluj, Romanian Academy Library, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 15 (from C. 55090), Saint Stephen protomartyr – 26 December

2. Cluj, Romanian Academy Library, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 14 (from BVM C. 218), Innocents – 28 December [F-iojy]

3. Budapest, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, T 422/b, Saint Vincent martyr – 22 January    

4. Budapest, National Archives of Hungary, F 15, Kolozsmonostor, Protocollum maius I 1629-1638, Saint Gregory the Great – 12 March

Fragm. Cod. Lat. 15 was the central bifolium of the quire, so that the text continues as follows:

*Ir: flesh side, right

*Iv: hair side, left

*IIr: flesh side, left

*IIr: hair side, right

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial bifolium
Dimensions 370 x 580 mm
More about the Current Condition

The fragment contains the top 6/7 of the entire text block on f. *II; the exterior of the text block was mutilated on f. *I. The fragment was detached from the host volume, and it was restored at the National Unity Museum, Alba Iulia, in 2021.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Alternating red and blue lombards (2 lines, c. 40 mm); pen-flourished cadel with mask (2 lines, c. 40 mm); highlighted initials (1 line, red).
  • Musical Notation

    Hungarian Gothic musical notation:

    "The musical script follows the common system of the main Hungarian plainchant codices: the notation is written in black ink over a set of four red horizontal lines occupying the whole width of the writing space. The text lines are unusually short, but the text itself is large compared to the musical notation, which suggests that text and the music are of unequal value in these musical fragments.  [...] The style in which the chants were written is archaic and rather provincial, which also explains the unusually small neumes." (Gabriella Gilányi, cf. Bibliography).

    • Content

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

        (*Ir) [In natiuitate Domini]

        [An. Natus est nobis hodie saluator qui est Christus dominus] | in ciuitate dauid. Ev[ovae].  

        [Officium S. Stephani protomartyris]

        [In festo pro]tho[martyris S. Ste] pha[ni] ???? de. s…???. Responsorium. Lapides torrentes (!) illi… [V.] Mortem enim… | [quam saluator dignatus est pro omnibus pa] (*Iv) ti [ha]nc ille primus red[didit sal]uatori. Ipsum. [V. Gl]oria patri et filio et spiritui sancto. Ipsum. Antifona. Aue prothomartir [Stepha]ne signifer eterni… [An. Lumine uultus tui do…] (*IIr) …mine insignitus prothomartir stephanus sacrificium iustitie seipsum tibi sacrificium (!) ideoque in leticia cordis in pace [obdorm]iens requiescit. Ps. Cum inuoca(rem). An. Benediccionis | [tue domine munere iustifica] (*IIv) tus et scuto tue proteccionis in passione munitus nominis sui coronam stephanus a te percipere meruit. Ps. Verba mea. An. O quam admirabile [est] nomen tuum domine deus noster… |
      • recto

    History

    Origin

    Transylvania (Co. Cluj?)
    Provenance

    All the fragments are connected to Transylvania, and more specifically to the region of Cluj: Budapest, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, T 422/b  was extracted from the binding of a printed book bearing the shelfmark Tört. F. 256, which had belonged to Count Ádám Teleki of Szék (d. 1792), administrator of Dăbâca (Hungarian: Doboka), Co. Cluj, and then to his heir, Countess Mária Teleki, according to a note on the front flyleaf. Budapest, National Archives of Hungary, F 15, Kolozsmonostor, Protocollum maius I 1629-1638 was detached from the binding of protocols from Cluj-Mănăștur/Kolozsmonostor. Fragm. Cod. Lat. 14 was used in  the binding of a book printed in Cluj in 1597 (BVM C.218). Both fragments from the Academy Library stem from the earliest Jesuit collections, constituted before 1604, which seem to use local manuscript fragments as wrappers.

    Fragm. Cod. Lat. 15 used to wrap the book C.55090 (Caius Julius Caesar, sive historiae imperatorum caesarumque Romanorum ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae liber primus. Accessit Caii Julii Caesaris vita et res gestae, Brugge: Hubertus Goltzius, 1563; USTC 401143). The frontispiece of C.55090 displays the ownership notes: “Collegii Soc<ieta>tis JESV Claudiop<olitani> 1604”, “Bibliothecae R<egii> Lycei Claudiopol<itani> 1832”, as well as an explanation of the woodcut engravings written by a seventeenth-century hand (“Musai. Mathem.<atica> Phys.<ica> Experi.<entia>”).
    Persons and Institutions Jesuit College, Cluj

    Host Volume

    Title Hubert Goltz, Caius Julius Caesar, sive historiae imperatorum caesarumque Romanorum ex antiquis numismatibus restitutae liber primus. Accessit Caii Julii Caesaris vita et res gestae, Brugge, 1563 – USTC 401143.
    Date of Origin/Publication 1563
    Place of Origin/Publication Brugge
    Shelfmark C. 55090
    Persons Hubert Goltzius
    Remarks

    The fragment (a wrapper) was detached from its host volume, and the latter was rebound in 2021. Fragm. Cod. Lat. 26 [F-d5sz]was the spine lining of the same volume.

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