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Menaion

Canon of St Nicholas (5 May)

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, U.64713

Anca Libidov & Adrian Papahagi (CODEX Centre, UBB Cluj) (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Menaion
Shelfmarks U.64713
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northern Romania?
Date of Origin 1251-1350
Script, Hands
One hand, early Cyrillic uncial.

Original Condition

Page Height 225 – 250 mm
Page Width 160 – 180 mm
Height of Written Area 188 mm
Width of Written Area 135 – 140 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 135 – 140 mm
Number of Lines 25
Line Height 7 – 8 mm
Ruling drypoint?

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
Dimensions 225 x 165 mm
More about the Current Condition

The top of the recto is covered by a paper pastedown with owners' annotations.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rubricated initials.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Old Church Slavonic
    • Title Menaion
    • Content Description

      (Canon of St Nicholas, 5 May)

      (recto:) Въстѹпль на лѣстьвицю добродѣтели и бл(а)женне/ чюдотворецъ ꙗвисѧ по въсѣи земли никѹлаи ... X ... (verso:) Похвалы достоины, недомышлѧюсѧ како при/

      (cf. full transcript)
    • Recto

History

Origin

Romanian linguistic influences argue for an origin in the northern regions of present-day Romania.
Provenance

The host volume was printed in 1586 in Losk – at that time in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, today in the region of Minsk, Belarus.

Until 1616 it belonged to a certain "Thoma Pisecki de Martowicz": "<sub rasura:> Hunc... libellum... Thoma Pisecki de Martowicß est A. 1616...", and, by a different hand, "dono accepi à Domino Thoma Pisecki de Martowicz. A° 1616 in Martio" (front flyleaf). Probably this owner wrote "Emptus groß. 10" on the front pastedown. 

Another owner added: "Possesssor Stanislaus Goydanzwski? 1639" (ibid.).

Finally, later in the 17th c., the owner of the book was Joachim Stegmann: "Ex libris Joachimi Stegmanni" (ibid.). 

Later in that century, or in the early 18th c. the book entered the collection of the Unitarian College in Cluj: "Ecclesie Unitariensis Claudiopolitanae" (title page), and stamp on the verso of the title page.  

Host Volume

Title Licinius, Jan Namysłowius Silesius, Instrumentum doctrinarum Aristotelicum in usum Christianorum scholarum exemplis theologicis illustratum, Losci Lithavorum: s.n., [15]86. (USTC 250067)
Date of Origin/Publication 1586
Place of Origin/Publication Losk (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Belarus)
Shelfmark U.64713
Remarks

The host volume is exceedingly rare. This is the only copy of the book known to USTC. 
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