Graduale
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General Information
One hand, late Gothic textualis.
Original Condition
This is the top half of the original leaf. The gap in the text on the verso and the regular height of staves and text lines (30 mm) suggests that the original leaf had another 3-4 lines of text and staves.
Current Condition
Restored at the National Unity Museum (Alba Iulia) in 2020.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Red/blue lombards, and cadels (2 lines, 50-60 mm).
Square Gothic musical notation.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Graduale
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Content Description
Ad Missam
[r:] [Gl.] Domine deus agnus dei filius patris Qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata mundi suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram// [patris miserere nobis, quoniam tu solus sanctus, tu solus dominus, tu solus altissimus, Jesu Christe, cum sancto spiritu]; [v:] in gloria dei patris. Amen. Sanctus. Agnus dei. Ite missa est. In festis trium lectionum. Sanctus. Agnus dei. Benedicamus. Predictum. Benedicamus. Sanctus. Agnus. dicant in vigilia beati Andree […] et in octava eiusdem. In profestis diebus. Kyrieleyso//[n]…
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History
The manuscript is similar to other late medieval choir books from Cluj (e. g. Alba Iulia, Batthyaneum Library, I.1) and Transylvania (esp. Șumuleu Ciuc/Csikszereda). It appears to be a local product, made for use in the Szekler region in Eastern Transylvania during the first two or three decades of the sixteenth century.
Wrapper of seventeenth-century registers. The fragment was detached from the host volume at some point in the twentieth century. On the top right-hand side of the verso, a twentieth-century hand wrote: "Leveltár A 997, 1627, Udvarhely ????" – "Archive A 997, 1627, Odorheiul Secuiesc").
In the right margin of the recto one can also read the date "Anno Domini 1623 Mensis Maij 26).
In the left margin of the verso, a seventeenth-century hand wrote "Salomon de Zereda" (Csíkszereda/Miercurea Ciuc).
In the top margin of the verso, one can read "Anno 1635".
The right margin of the verso contains annotations about the Epistles of Paul.
Various other seventeenth-century annotations.