Donatus, Ars minor

De verbo, De adverbio

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Cluj-Napoca, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Inc. C. 42

General Information

Title Donatus, Ars minor
Shelfmarks Inc. C. 42
Page/Folio Reference front flyleaf
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Transylvania (Sighișoara?)
Date of Origin 1401-1450
Script, Hands

One hand, neat Northern Textualis. Top compartment of a closed with a hairline, occasional dotting of i, Tironian 7 crossed by two lines. 

Original Condition

Page Height 300 – 335 mm
Page Width 210 – 240 mm
Height of Written Area 235 – 240 mm
Width of Written Area 167 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 167 mm
Number of Lines 27 – 30
Line Height 8 – 9 mm
Ruling black ink

Current Condition

Extent roughly 1/3 cropped from the centre of the original leaf
Dimensions 105 x 210 mm

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Ars minor
    • Content Description

      (recto) [De verbo]

      //...que simplex ut lego composita ut neglego X prima ut lego, secunda ut legis, tertia ut legit.

      [De adverbio]

      Adverbium quid est pars orationis que adiecta uerbo significationem eius explanat atque implet... X ... aut ordinis aut interrogandi aut similitudinis aut qualitatis aut quantitatis aut d//[ubitandi...]

      (verso) //prohibendi ut ne, euentus ut forte fortuitu, comparandi ut magis minus uel tam... X ...significationem habent, ut intro eo, foras exeo. de intus autem et de foris sic non dicimus. Quomodo ad foras uel in foras...

    • Inc_42_recto
    • Remarks

      Cf. https://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/04z/z_0300-0400__Donatus._Aurelius__De_Partibus_Orationis_Ars_Minor__LT.pdf.html

History

Origin

The host volume belonged around 1500 to a Dominican friar from Sighișoara. The book may have been bound using maculature available in that city. 

Provenance

On the rear pastedown one can read the following obiit note: "Anno domini Mccccx[c]ix (1499) feria quarta ante festis Andree appostoli obiit venerabilis ac ??? vir Udalricus comes de Mans??? qui sepultus est in ???? in claustro monialium."

The oldest attested owner wrote on Inc. C. 42a, f. A.ii recto: "Iste libellus procuratus est cura ac diligentia per fratrem Iohannem, Et post obitum suum pertinebit ad Segeszwar ad castrum ordinis predicatorum. Concessus est autem sibi ad vsum suum in eternum."

In 1670, the book belonged to the Jesuit school of Cluj-Mănăștur: "Residentia Monostoriensis 1670" (title page of Inc. C. 42a); another ownership note on. f. A.ii verso confirms that in 1764 the book was still in the Jesuit library.

In 1832 the book was at the successor of that institution, the Royal High School of Cluj (title page of Inc. C. 42a).

Host Volume

Title a. Brant, Sebastian, Varia carmina. Add: Johann Bergmann, Basel : Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 1 May [14]98. [ISTC ib01099000]; b. Vergilius Maro, Publius: Bucolica (cum commento). - Deventer : Richardus Pafraet, 5 May 1498 [iv00212500]; c. Vergilius Maro, Publius: Georgica (Comm: Hermannus Torrentinus). - Deventer : Richardus Pafraet, 29 May 1498 [iv00229500]; d. Alanus de Insulis: Doctrinale altum seu liber parabolarum (cum commento). - Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, 1497 [ia00174000]; e. Martialis, Marcus Valerius: Xenia et Apophoreta. - Leipzig : Jacobus Thanner, 1 Oct. 1498 [im00314000].
Date of Origin/Publication 1497-1498
Shelfmark Inc. C. 42