General Information
Title
Breviarium
Shelfmarks
U.68756-68761
Page/Folio Reference
wrapper
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Central Europe
Date of Origin
1351-1400
Script, Hands
Northern Textualis; one hand. Box a; uncrossed Tironian 7.
Original Condition
Page Height
230 – 240 mm
Page Width
165 mm
Height of Written Area
145 mm
Width of Written Area
100 – 105 mm
Number of Columns
1
Width of Columns
100 – 105 mm
Number of Lines
29
Line Height
5 mm
Ruling
black ink
Current Condition
Extent
Almost the entire bifolium is preserved.
Dimensions
200 x 300 mm
More about the Current Condition
The bifolium wanting its margins, but the entire text block is preserved (some of the text is in the turn-ins).
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Red and blue Lombards (2-10 lines), highlighted initials, rubrics.
Content
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Content Item
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Text Language
Latin
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Title
Breviarium
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Content Description
(back cover) [et impleti sunt stupore]// et extasi in eo quod contigerat illi. (Actus Apost. 3: 10) Factum est Petrum dum pertransiret universos devenire ad sanctos qui habitabant Lidde. Lectio IIII. Invenit autem ibi hominem quendam nomine Eneam... X ...posuerunt in cenaculo. Lectio Va. Cum autem prope esset Lidda... X .... vestes quas faciebat illis Dorcas. Lectio VIa. Eiectis autem omnibus foras Petrus ponenbat genua... X ....crediderunt multi in domino. (Actus Apost. 9: 32-42) Lectio VIIa //
(Dominica Resurrectionis)
(front cover) <heavily damaged by water> Lectio XIIa. Quid ergo miramur fratres Mariam venientem an Dominum suscipientem?... X ...et osculabatur pedes eius et unguento ungebat (Greg. Magnus, Hom. In Evang. XXXIII, 1-2). R. Et valde mane una sabbatorum... V. Maria Magdalena et Maria Jacobi et Salome venerunt diluculo ad monumentum. Secundum Lucam. In illo tempore rogabat quidam phariseus... X ... et qualis est mulier que tangit eum quia peccatrix est. Et respondens// [Iesus dixit ad illum] (Luc. 7:36-40).
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History
Origin
The host volume is composed of six books printed between 1582-1595, mostly in Wittenberg, but also in Leipzig.
Provenance
The volume belonged to the library of the Unitarian college of Cluj ("Brassai könyvtár", stamp, s. XIX-XX, title page of U.68756).
Host Volume
Title
U.68756: Epitome meteororum, hoc est, impressionum aërearum, et mirabilium naturae operum, non tantum physicae doctrinae studiosis, verum etiam iis, qui in scribendis se versibus exercent utilis, autore Henrico Decimatore Giffhornensi, Lipsiae: excudebant haeredes Georgii Defneri, 1587 (USTC 653019)
U.68757: Aristotelis Stagiritae Meteorologicorum liber quartus. Cum diversae lectionis notatione, et Ioachimi Perionis interpretatione, editus studio Valentini Espichii, Witebergae: excudebat Zacharias Lehman, 1585 (USTC 612928)
U.68758: De meteoris Iohannis Ioviani Pontani ad Lucium Franciscum filium, liber seorsim expresssus, s.l. (Germany), s.n., 1582 (USTC 630474)
U.68759: Opus insigne Cypriani Leovitii à Leonicia, mathematici excellentissimi, de magnis superiorum planetarum coniunctionibus, solis defectibus, et cometis in quarta monarchia, cum eorundem effectuum historica expositione. His ad calcem accessit prognosticon ab anno Domini 1564 usque ad annum 1584, Witebergae: Matthaeus Welack excudebat, 1586 (USTC 679770)
U.68760: Isagoge ad studium geometriae perdiscendum, adolescentibus scitu necessaria, in qua non tantum species methodi, in singulis artibus et disciplinis necessariae, partim Physicis, partim Geometricis demonstrationibus explicantur, sed etiam de differentia propositionum Euclidearum, et summa singulorum librorum Euclidis dicitur, adolescentibus … proposita ab Abrahamo Rockenbach Zeapolitano, Witebergae: excudebat vidua Matthaei Welaci, 1595 (USTC 668286)
U.68761: Aristotelis Peri aistheseos kai aistheton: et peri mnemes kai anamneseos. Libelli, seorsum editi, Witebergae: typis Zachariae Lehmanni, 1589 (USTC 612942)
Date of Origin/Publication
U.68756: 1587; U.68757: 1585, U.68758: 1582; U.68759: 1586; U.68760: 1595; U.68761: 1589.
Place of Origin/Publication
U.68756: Leipzig; U.68758: s.l.; U.68757, U.68759, U.68760, U.68761: Wittenberg.
Shelfmark
U.68756-68761
Persons
authors: Heinrich Decimator (c. 1544, Gifhorn - 1615); Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503); Cyprian Leowitz (1524-1574); Abraham Rockenbach.
printers: Matthäus Welack; Zacharias Lehmann.
Remarks
Former shelfmarks: G.I.14, Br. 1242.
