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Antiphonale a.u. Ecclesiae Transsylvaniae

F-iojy

Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Fragm. Cod. Lat. 14

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

General Information

Title Antiphonale a.u. Ecclesiae Transsylvaniae
Shelfmarks Fragm. Cod. Lat. 14
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Transylvania
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 leaves 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 [F-i7u5]

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

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

Current Condition

Extent the text block
Dimensions 370 x 250 mm
More about the Current Condition

Restored at the National Unity Museum, Alba Iulia, in 2020-21.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Alternating red and blue lombards (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

        [In Nativitate Innocentium]

        (r) //...mendacium Ideo. V. Ex ore inf[antium]. Ymnus. Saluete f.[lores]. An. Istorum est enim regnum celorum qui contempserunt uitam mundi et peruenerunt ad premia regni et lauerunt stolas suas in sanguine agni. Ps. Magnificat. Invitatorium. Regem (v) [re]gum dominum uenite ad[o]remus quia ipse est corona sanctorum innocencium. Psalmus. Venite. an. Herodes uidens quia illusus esset a magis misit in bethleem et [occi]dit omnes pueros q[ui]...
      • recto

    History

    Origin

    Transylvania.
    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, which proves its provenance. Fragm. Cod. Lat. 14 was used in  the binding of a book printed in Cluj in 1597 (BVM C.218–v. infra). Both fragments from the Academy Library stem from the earliest Jesuit collections, constituted before 1604, which seem to use local manuscript fragments as wrappers.

    Host Volume

    Title Antiquitas et perpetua duratio fidei catholicae, seu tabulae testimoniorum ex Sacris Libris, et Sanctorum Patrum scriptis... collectae per Ioannem Szilvasi concionatorem Catholicum
    Date of Origin/Publication 1597
    Place of Origin/Publication Cluj
    Shelfmark BVM C.218
    Persons János Szilvási, fl. 1587-1597
    Remarks

    On the dedicatory page (iir), ownership notes "Societatis Iesu in Monostor" (s. XVIII/XIX), and "Bibliotheca Lycei Regalis Claudipolitani 1831".

    Former shelfmarks on front pastedown: J. H. 31 (s. XVIII?), N7 I 22 (red pencil, s. XVIII/XIX?); 113.d.32 (s. XX), and label with the current shelfmark (s. XX).

    Bibliography

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