Graduale VaradinenseElectronic version according to TEI P5.1Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments
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Cluj-NapocaBiblioteca Academiei RomâneFragm. Cod. Lat. 1Graduale Varadinense1476-1490Prague1rLatinGradualeThe longest surviving text sequence is –us exaudi–.
A search of the Vulgate text yields the following possible matches: Dominus exaudiet me cum clamavero ad eum (Ps. 4, 4); Iste pauper clamavit, et Dominus exaudivit eum (Ps. 33, 7); Clamaverunt justi, et Dominus exaudivit eos (Ps. 33, 18); Deus, exaudi orationem meam; auribus percipe verba oris mei. (Ps. 53, 4); et sic deprecatus exaudietur (Eccl. 33, 4); et Dominus exauditor non delectabitur in illis (Eccl. 35, 19); Ego Dominus exaudiam eos (Isa. 41, 17); Tunc invocabis, et Dominus exaudiet (Isa. 58, 9); dicit Dominus, exaudiam caelos (Ose. 2, 21).
Unfortunately, ‘[Clamaverunt justi, et Domin]us exaudi[vit eos]’, corresponding to the Commune plurimorum Martyrum in the Commune Sanctorum of the Gradual, or ‘[De]us, exaudi [orationem meam; auribus percipe verba oris mei]’, the responsory on the feria secunda in the fifth week of Lent (Dominica V Quadragesimae, feria II), which would be good candidates for the text, do not match the music.Parchment570 570840 840182-185 x 275-277 mmThe original MS had folio numbering (top centre of pages). [?]ij visible on the hair side, and ł[iber] – on the flesh side.
restored in 2020
red ink42 43
The text was copied by one hand in a stately textura. Note the peculiar dotting of the i.
Bohemian rhombic Gothic musical notation. Four-line red staves. Space between stave lines: 12 mm.The manuscript was most likely produced in Prague for Johannes Filipec, bishop of Oradea (1476-1490) and Olomouc (1484-1490), and chancellor of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1485-1490).Oradea cathedral. The volumes of the Antiphonale and Graduale Varadinense were most likely dismembered in Northern Hungary. The main body of the Antiphonale is now in Győr, Egyházmegyei Kincstár és Könyvtár, but fragments are scattered from Modra and Bratislava in Slovakia to Budapest, Esztergom, Debrecen and Győr in Hungary. Only rare fragments of the Graduale have survived.Adrian Papahagi, "A Fragment of the Graduale Varadiense at the Romanian Academy Library in Cluj (Kolozsvár)", Magyar Könyvszemle 133 (2017), 455-59.
Zsuzsa Czagány (ed.), Antiphonale Varadiense s. XV, Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Musicology, 2019, 3 vols.