Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Graecismus

Cap. XX. De adverbiis, ll. 6-51, 55-104

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Inc. U.101

General Information

Title Graecismus
Shelfmarks Inc. U. 101
Page/Folio Reference rear flyleaf
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Central Europe?
Date of Origin 1351-1400
Script, Hands

One hand, Gothica cursiva. 

Original Condition

Page Height 230 – 240 mm
Page Width 165 – 170 mm
Height of Written Area 200 – 210 mm
Width of Written Area 90 – 92 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 90 – 92 mm
Number of Lines 47 – 50
Line Height 4 mm
Ruling faint black ink

Current Condition

Extent almost the entire leaf
Dimensions 210 x 150 mm
More about the Current Condition

Three lines of text are missing at the bottom of the leaf.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

none

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Graecismus
    • Content Description

      (Cap. XX. De aduerbiis, 6-51; 55-104)

      (recto)

      Hic illic istic alibi foris haec ad ubi das ,

      Hinc illinc istinc aliunde foris petit unde,

      Huc illuc istuc alioque foras dabis ad quo

      Hac illac istac alias qua uult sibi reddi.

      [...]

      Olim preteritum signat presensque futurum// (6-51)

      [Mile transpositum tria ducit tempora secum.

      Presens preteritum quondam notat atque futurum.

      Sicut olim dudum tria quodlibet indicat horum.] 

      (verso)

      Est iam componens, est assumens geminatum,

      Et dicas etiam, iamiam, dicas quoque iamque

      [...]

      Funditus et passim saciusque fere quoque statim,

      Dum taxat sane sensum actutum quoque ualde// (55-104)

    • Inc_101_recto
    • Edition Eberhardi Bethuniensis Graecismus, ed. Johann Wrobel, Bratislava: Koebner, 1887, pp. 187-192. .
    • Remarks

      Cf. https://archive.org/details/eberhardibethuniensisgraewro/page/n7/mode/2up

History

Origin

Central Europe? 

Provenance

In 1601, the host volume belonged to the typographer Gáspár Heltai the Younger of Cluj, who inscribed his name on the first page: "Caspar Helti Typography Coloswarinis(!) 1601" (f. 1r).

In 1729, the book was donated by Paul Gyergyai to the Unitarian college of Cluj: "Ex oblatione Generosi Pauli Gyergyai est Scholae Unitarianae Claudopolitanae ab Anno 1729" (f. 1r). Paul Gyergyai (1689-1751) was senior of the Unitarian college, then curator of the Unitarian Congregation of Cluj, senator and representative of Cluj to nine sessions of the Transylvanian Diet.

The 15th- and early 16th-c. annotations show that the book was read soon after it was printed. It may have belonged to the Dominican and Franciscan convents of Cluj, suppressed in 1556, to whose collections Unitarian scholars had access (cf. Papahagi, Books from Lost Libraries, p. 127)

Host Volume

Title Auctoritates Aristotelis et aliorum philosophorum, Bologna: Ugo Rugerius, 15 Apr. 1488 (ia01200000).
Date of Origin/Publication 1488
Shelfmark Inc. U.101

Bibliography

  • Carmen Oanea, entry on Inc. U.101 on Material Evidence in Incunabula.

    https://data.cerl.org/mei/02154179
  • Adrian Papahagi, Books from Lost Libraries: The Medieval Dioceses of Cenad, Oradea, and Transylvania, Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2023, p. 127.