Antiphonale

De Machabaeis, ad Matutinum

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, U.64308

General Information

Title Antiphonale
Shelfmarks U.64308
Page/Folio Reference wrapper
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Central Europe (Hungary)
Date of Origin 1426-1475
Script, Hands

Northern textualis, one hand.

Original Condition

Page Height 450 – 470 mm
Page Width 320 – 340 mm
Height of Written Area 320 – 330 mm
Width of Written Area 230 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 230 mm
Number of Lines 8
Line Height 20 mm
Ruling red staves

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
Dimensions 170 x 255 mm
More about the 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

Description

Flourished and highlighted cadel D (black, red) and blue lombard (2 lines).

  • Musical Notation

    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

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Antiphonale
      • 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...]

      • U_64308

    History

    Origin

    Hungarian origin suggested by the musical notation.

    Provenance

    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)

    Remarks

    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

    Title Foreest, Pieter van, Observationum et curationum medicinalium de febribus ephemeris et continuis libri duo. In quibus earum caussae, signa, prognoses, curatio, graphice depinguntur, Antwerpen (=Leiden),:apud Christophe Plantin, 1584 (USTC 402026)
    Date of Origin/Publication 1584
    Place of Origin/Publication Antwerpen (Leiden)
    Shelfmark U.64308
    Persons Foreest, Pieter van (Principal Author)
    Remarks

    Former shelfmarks: "R.1247", "C114", "61691".