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Breviarium (Hymns for vespers and compline)

In adventu Domini ad vesperas; In adventu Domini ad laudes; In natali domini ad vesperas et ad completorium; In epiphania Domini ad vesperas; In purificatione Sancte Marie

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Inc. S.118

Carmen Fenechiu & Adrian Papahagi (CODEX Centre, UBB), 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Breviarium (Hymns for vespers and compline)
Shelfmarks Inc. S.118
Page/Folio Reference flyleaves
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany?
Date of Origin 1376-1400
Script, Hands

At least two hands, Northern Textualis. 

Original Condition

Page Height 280 – 300 mm
Page Width 200 – 210 mm
Height of Written Area 195 – 210 mm
Width of Written Area 140 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 60 mm
Number of Lines 28 – 30
Line Height 7 mm
Ruling invisible (drypoint?)
Collation

The collation is visible on the reconstructed bifolia. This is the interior bifolium of the quire; assuming the quire was a quaternio, we have numbered the leaves *4r-*5v. 

Current Condition

Extent Two pieces from the top and centre of one bifolium.
Dimensions 80 x 195 mm; 65 x 195 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red Lombards; rubrics.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Breviarium (Hymns for vespers and compline)
    • Content Description

      (*4ra) [In adventu domini ad vesperas] [Veni redemptor gentium] ... X ... [Alvus tum]escit virg[inis claustra pudoris] permane[nt vexilla virtutum] micant [versatur in templo Deus.] Proced[ens de thalamo suo] pudoris [aula regia gemi]ne gyg[as substantie ala]cris ut [currat viam.] (Veni redemptor gentium) ... X ... [In adventu domini ad laudes] [E sursum Agnus mittitur (*4vb) laxare g]//ratis debitum; [omnes pro indul]gentia vocem [demus] lacrimis cum secundo [ut cum fulserit...] (Vox clara ecce intonat) ... X ... [In natali domini ad vesperas] [A solis ortus cardine ad usque terre limitem christum canamus pri]ncipem natum Maria] virgine. [Beatus auc]tor seculi servile corpus] induit ut [carne carnem lib]erans ne perderet quod cond]idit. [Caste parentis] viscera [celestis intrat gratia] ... X ... [Enixa est puerpera quem Gabriel predixerat quem matris alvo]  (*5ra) // gestiens clausus Johannes senserat. Feno iacere pertulit presepe non abhorruit parvo[que lacte pastus est per quem nec ales esurit.] ... X... [per omne] seculum amen. (Sedulius, A solis ortus cardine) [Ad completorium] Corde natus ex parentis ante mundi exordium alfa et o cognominatus ipse fons et clausula omnium que sunt[fuerunt queque post futura sunt.] .... X .... [Quit]  (*5rb) //quit et virtutis [usquam] psallat in laudem [dei] nulla linguarum si[lescat vox et omnis consonet]. ... X ... [Te senes et te iuventus]
 parvulorum te chorus tur[ba] matrum virginumque sim[pli]ces puellule voce [con]cordes pudicis perstre[pant] concentibus. Seculorum seculis. Tibi Christe sit cum patre agy[oque] Spiritu ymnus melos laus perhennis gratiarum act[io] honor virtus vict[oria] regnum eternaliter. Seculorum seculis. (Aurelius Clemens Prudens, Corde natus ex parentis, 1, 8-9) [In epiphania domini ad vesperas] ... X ... [Non eripit mortalia, qui regna dat]   (*5va)  [caelest]//ia. Ibant magi [quam] viderant stellam [sequent]es previam lumen [requirunt lumine deum fatentur munere.] .... X .... [Novu]m genus potencie [a]que rubescunt ydrie [vin]umque iussa fundere mutavit unda originem. Summo parenti gloria.  (Sedulius, Hostis Herodes impie) [In purificatione sancte Mariae] Quod chorus vatum venerandus olim spiritu [sancto] cecinit repletus// [in Dei factum genitrice constat esse Maria.] ... X... [Quem se]   (*5vb) //nex justus Symean in ulnis In domo sumpsit Domini gavisus hoc quod optatum [proprio videret Lumine Christum] ... X ... [Sit Deo nostro] decus et potestas sit salus perpes sit honor perhennis qui [poli summa residet in arce]  trinus et unus. Amen. (Rabanus Maurus, Quod chorus vatum) Dies absoluti pretereunt dies observabiles redeunt. Tempus adest sobrium queramus puro co[rde]dominum. Ymnis et in // [confessionibus iudex complacabitur dominus]. (Dies absoluti pretereunt)  
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    • Remarks

      In establishing the correct order of the fragments of texts preserved on the flyleaves of great help was Breviarium Franconicum, sec. XI-XII (Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, Cod. 215), f.277v sqq.: https://digital.dombibliothek-koeln.de/hs/content/zoom/185511. 

History

Origin

The host volume consists of five incunabula printed between 1482-1489 in Germany, France (Alsacia) and Switzerland.
Provenance

The volume was part of the library of the Diocese of Satu Mare, stamp: "Szatmári egyházmegyei püspöki könyvtár".
Persons and Institutions Diocese of Satu Mare. Romanian Academy Library in Cluj.

Host Volume

Title Inc. S.118a - Hieronymus: Vita et transitus (i.e., Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De miraculis Hieronymi), Passau: Benedictus Mayr and Conrad Stahel, 26 July 1482 [ISTC ih00242000] Inc. S.118b - Imitatio Christi. Add: Johannes Gerson: De meditatione cordis, Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1488 [ISTC ii00016000] Inc. S.118c - Bartholomaeus de Chaimis, Confessionale sive Interrogatorium. Add: Interrogationes faciende infirmo morienti, [Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, about 1489] [ISTC ii00163000] Inc. S.118d - Valentinus: Opusculum de arte moriendi, Leipzig: Moritz Brandis, 1489 [ISTC iv00012000] Inc. S.118e - Pius II, Pont. Max. (formerly Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini): Historia Bohemica, [Basel: Michael Furter?, about 1489] [ISTC ip00729000]
Date of Origin/Publication Inc. S.118a - 1482, Inc. S.118b - 1488, Inc. S.118c-e - 1489
Place of Origin/Publication Inc. S.118a - Passau, Inc. S.118b - Augsburg, Inc. S.118c - Hagenau, Inc. S.118d - Leipzig, Inc. S.118 e - Basel
Shelfmark Inc. S.118a-e
Persons Eusebius of Cremona, Augustin, Cyrillus (authors); Bartholomaeus de Chaimis (author); Valentinus (author); Pius II (author)

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