Sermones?/ De vitiis et virtutibus? Electronic version according to TEI P5.1 Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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 Cluj-Napoca Biblioteca Academiei Române U.88565 Sermones?/ De vitiis et virtutibus? 1401-1450 Central Europe (Poland?) U_88565 Latin Sermones?/ De vitiis et virtutibus? (back cover, inc.:) //vel infirmas vitulum saginatum potest signare tyrannos et potentes huius seculi qui scilicet videntur regis inferni et exercitus iniquorum principes atque duces et qui eciam in se infirmi sunt in quantum faciliter in peccatum cadunt et vitulos etiam saginatos, hic est dicendum divites agricolas infirmos reddunt in quantum ipsos spoliant et depauperant et confidunt igitur cum tales sint prae ceteris nequiores. Non quod ipsi – Indignantur iustorum verbulis – Efferantur irarum stimulis – Evagantur incautis oculis – Inflamantur carneis faculis – Alligantur accidis vinculis – Ebriantur cibis et poculis – Hylarantur ineptis ioculis – Elevantur superbis titulis – Iugulantur inferni iaculis…  (front cover, expl.:) Sic vere semina diviciarum quamvis discrete et moderate sumpta hominibus possunt perficere ad salutem occidunt tamen illos per avariciam qui ipsas indiscrete accipiunt et qui male ipsas administrantes cor et fiduciam ibi ponunt argentum enim unum exterius corpori compositum potest multis medicinis esse multum utile. Si vero indiscrete interius bibatur occidit hominem eiusque intima perforat et corrodit. Sic vere argentum unum ardens gerentem in ventre id est diviciarum affluencia si exterius et superficialiter habeatur utilis est, si vero intus in corde per amorem recipiatur tunc solet hominem per avariciam occidere et per curas et sollicitudines intima cordis solet? multipliciter lacerare et hoc est quod figuratur Genesi iiii in Caym qui interpretatur possessio qui in agro occidit Abel fratrem suum eo id est indiscrete cum eo ivisset et in eo co....? quia vere mundi possesiones et divicie in agro huius mundi solent fratres suos id est illos qui ipsas amant per avariciam occidere et eos qui se eis indiscrete .....? affectum et qui stulte in eis confidunt solent...// Parchment About 3/4 of the bifolium.315 320400 450215 215318 320360 x 500 mm

One leaf wants 1/2 col., the other leaf preserves the entire text block, 3 lines are in the bottom turn-ins.

 black ink 95 102 5 5

Hybrida Libraria; one hand. Frequent use of round r, fusions of bo, de.

 Red lombard (3 lines), highlighted initials, blue and red markings for schemes. The host book was printed in Basel in 1557. One of the first owners of the host volume was ..., note on front pastedown: ”Sum Georgii Schomanni dono Joannis Balcerowy?. Anno Christi Nati 1579”. At the beginning of the 17th century the volume was in the possession of Valentinus Radecius; note on front pastedown: "Nunc vero Valentini Radekii, Liberalitate Generosi Domini Stanislai Lubieniecii, Anno 1601, 12 Januarii” and note on title page: ”Valentini Radecii Gedanensis”. "Valentinus Radecius (? –1632) was a Unitarian priest of Polish descent. He was born in Gdańsk, studied in Raków, was a schoolmaster in Lusławice, then a Unitarian rector in Cluj [from 1605], a pastor from 1607, and a Unitarian bishop of Transylvania from 1616 until his death.” (Sándor Előd Ősz, Bibliotheca Calviniana Transylvanica. Kora újkori Kálvin-kiadások Erdélyben/Frühneuzeitliche Calvin-Ausgaben in Siebenbürgen (Erdélyi Református Egyháztörténeti Füzetek 21.), Cluj: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület/ Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület, 2014, p. 232, n. 33). The volume became afterwards part of the collection of the Unitarian Church in Cluj, note on title page: ”Ecclesiae Unitariae Claudiopolitanae”.  Description by: Carmen Fenechiu, UBB Cluj (CODEX Centre), 2026