Basic Data

Numerus
F1115
Genre
Breviarium notatum
Date
s. 13/2
Archives / Library / Collection
Zagreb, Nadbiskupsko bogoslovno sjemenište
Shelfmark
765 (host volume)
Material
parchment
Extent
2 incomplete leaves, not detached
Page height
170 mm (incomplete)
Page width
260 mm (incomplete)
Number of columns
2
Number of lines
f.1 (front cover): 9 lines with text, 6 line with music (left column); 15 lines with text (right column); f.2 (back cover): 16 lines with text (left column); 16 lines with text (right column)
Width of columns
100-110 mm (complete)
Stave height
12–13 mm
Script
gothica textualis formata
Musical notation
Esztergom notation
Musical notation/remarks
4-line staves with lines traced in red, C-clef, F-clef; no custos
Host volume / author, title
Decretum Gratiani emendatum et notationibus illustratum una cum glossis, Gregorii XIII. pont. max. iussu editum… Romae: In Aedibus Populi Romani, 1584
Host volume / shelfmark
765
Owners
Nikola Vukčević (ca. 1890–1895)
Content
Valentinus mart. (02.14.), Gregorius cf. (03.12.)
Origin
Hungary (Esztergom)
Bibliography/References
Gábriel Szoliva, OFM, „Treasures Uncovered in the Library of the Archdiocese and the Cathedral Chapter of Zagreb. Reconstructing the Sanctorale of Esztergom Cathedral’s 13th-Century Notated Breviary”, Arti musices 52 (2021/2): 235–260 (https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/clanak/392864); Szoliva Gábriel OFM, „Secunda pars breviarii. A 13. századi esztergomi breviárium kottás szanktoráléjának rekonstrukciója felé”, Magyar Könyvszemle 135 (2019/3): 307–330
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Analytical Description

These two fragments of the Archdiocesan Theological Seminary (Nadbiskupsko bogoslovno sjemenište), Zagreb, under the shelfmark 765 belong to the second volume of Breviarium notatum Strigoniense (abbr. BNS II), a musically notated breviary of Esztergom from the second half of the 13th century. The fragments reveal some parts of the Matins of Gregory the Great celebrated on the 12nd of March, and of the Matins of Valentinus martyr celebrated on the 14th of February.

The codex itself survived in an entirely fragmented state: most of the corpus (258 fragments) is on the covers of 15th—17th century printed books of the Metropolitanska knjižnica Zagrebačke nadbiskupije (Metropolitan Library, Zagreb); four fragments are among the detached fragments of the ELTE University Library and Archive, Budapest, and further two fragments are in the possession of the Franciscans at Zagreb. (For the latter group’s detailed description see fragments F328a, F328b, and F 1104.) At the end of the 17th century – among other manuscripts – the codex was used as raw material by the bookbinder of the Zagreb Chapter after bishop Aleksandar Mikulić (1688—1694) ordered the printed books of the Chapter to be bound uniformly. See the details here: https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/clanak/392864.

For further fragments of BNS II kept in the Archdiocesan Theological Seminary, Zagreb, see: F1114, F1116, F1117

Gábriel Szoliva OFM

Content

RISM Folio Tempus Dies Hora Genre Incipit Mode Cantus ID Mel. Num.
1 Gregorius cf. N2 a1 Gregorius ut creditur* 4 002983 Ant-4290
1 Gregorius cf. N2 a2 Studiis liberalibus 5 005036 Ant-5115
1 Gregorius cf. N2 a3 Hic ab adolescentia 6 003046 Ant-6161
1 Gregorius cf. N2 Lc IV
2 Valentinus m. N1 Lc I
2 Valentinus m. N1 Lc II
2 Valentinus m. N1 Lc III (?)