Antiphonale
Sancti Martini episcopi
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General Information
Nortem textualis, one hand.
Original Condition
Current Condition
The text is worn in places; however, both the musical notation and the accompanying text remain clearly legible. The wrapper is partly detached and the text can be read in some areas of the inner side (not photographed).
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Rubricated lombards (2 lines)
The fragment has fifteenth-century German notation (Hufnagel notation), executed in bold pen strokes. The staff consists of five black lines, with a custos at the end of each line. On the inside of the wrapper one can identify clefs C and F on lines 2-3/4-5.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Antiphonale
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Content Description
(Sancti Martini episcopi)
(recto) R. Dixe[runt discipuli ad bea]tum Martinum [cur nos pater deseris a]ut cui nos desolatos [relinquis invadent] enim gregem [tuum lupi rapa]ces. Scimus quidem [desiderare te Christum nostri] potius miserere quos// [deseris.]
(verso) [A. Tetradius cognita dei virtute ad bap]tismi gratiam pervenit. Ps. [O ineffabi]lem virum per quem nobis [tanta miracula coruscant]. Ps. Domine dominus noster. V. Iuravit dominus et non pe<nitebit>. Res. O[culis ac manibus] in caelum semper in[tentus]..... [sa]cramenta offeret....
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History
Germany/Austria like the host volume and its provenance until s. XIX. The musical notation also points to a German origin (Hufnagel notation).
The book once belonged to the library of Blaj scholar Timotei Cipariu (1805-1887) (stamp, title page). It then belonged to the Archdiocesan Library of Blaj (stamp on front flyleaf).
Illegible annotation on the verso of the 2nd front flyleaf: "...anno 1708".
Scholarly annotations concerning the work contained in the volume (Alcimus Avitus, Opuscula). „C. Barthius lib. LX. Adversar. omnium, col. 2977. Alcimus Avitus maxima in Latina Ecclesia auctoritatis tractator, ut videre est apud Augustinum in libro de Duello qui fide Catholica, Eloquentia facundissimum, ingenio acerrimum, sacrarum scripturarum expositorem suavissimum, litterarum secularium doctissimum in memoriam facillimum laudat.) quod ideo hac eius mentione notandum putavi, ut videamus, quam multa in tanti viri tractatibus amiserimus; non dubium est in Gallia plurima adhuc eius scripta superesse: cum videamus quotidie tot aliorum patrum scripta renasci in lucem. Id. l. 25. Advers. e.g. col. 1232. Alcimus Avitus erudition poëta quam magistri censent. 12. l. 32. e.g. col. 1477. Elegantissimus auctor. fac. Sirmondy praefat. in Alcimum Ecdicium Avitum ad lectorem: Sanctissimus atque inter Poëtas Christianos haud facile cuiquam postponendus, Ecclesiae Praesul. Barthius ad lib. 4. Theb. Staty. v. 834. Quam corruptus sit et ingeniosus doctusque hic auctor, dici non potest nisi collatione veterum librorum instituta. Joh. Murmelius lib. 1. Eleg. Moral. Elgy. 1. v. 41. Alcimus heroico versu praeclarus Avitus Res canit sacras, eloquioque gravi.”
Host Volume
Former shelfmarks: 840, 5380.