Antiphonale
De Machabaeis, ad Matutinum
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General Information
Northern textualis, one hand.
Original Condition
Current Condition
The manuscript fragment is well preserved; both the text and the musical notation are clearly legible. The entire width of the wrting area has been preserved.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Flourished and highlighted cadel D (black, red) and blue lombard (2 lines).
The notation displays the typical features of Hungarian notation, and is written on a four-line red staff. C and F clefs are used on the fourth and second lines, respectively. Since the ends of the staves are not clearly visible, the presence of custos signs cannot be determined.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Antiphonale
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Content Description
(De Machabaeis, ad Matutinum. Responsorium.)
[Congregati sunt inimici nostri et gloriantur in virtute sua contere fortitudinem illorum domine et disperge illos ut cognoscant quia non est alius qui pugnet pro nobis nisi] tu deus noster. V. Disperge illos in virtute tua et destrue eos protector noster domine ut cog<noscant> R. Dixit Iudas Symoni fratri suo elige tibi viros et vade libera fratres tuos in Galilaeam ego autem et Ionathas frater meus ibimus in Gala//[aditim...]
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History
Hungarian origin suggested by the musical notation.
Former owners: "Dal<noki> Lau<rentius> (title page of host volume). Dálnoki Nagy Lőrinc, also known as Laurentius Dalnoki, was a seventeenth-century teacher and philosopher who lived in Cluj between 1614 and 1661.
The book subsequently entered the library of the Unitarian college in Cluj: "Eccl. Unit. Claudiop." (title page of host volume)
Annotations: The front pastedown bears several Latin devotional and moral annotations, including "Memento mori" and "Memorare novissima" . A further, partially legible inscription appears below.
Host Volume
Former shelfmarks: "R.1247", "C114", "61691".