The fragment is a missing leaf of the 14-15th-century Hungarian (Transylvanian) Franciscan psalter (Szendrei 1981, C 31; Radó 1973, No. 59, see Bibliography) kept in the National Széchenyi Library under the shelfmark cod. lat. 366. Beside the matching sizes, the text and music notation, and the editorial characteristics, the examination of the content also confirmed this assumption. In the codex, on f.121v (according to the machine-made numbering) the Friday vespers’ psalm 141 is cut at the beginning of the 5th verse („…absconderunt laqueum mihi. Con-”), which continues at the first line of the fragment’s recto („siderabam ad dexteram…”). The last line of the fragment’s verso goes to the 8th verse of the psalm 143 („Emitte manum tuam de alto, eripe me”), the continuation can be found on the codex’s f.122 recto („et libera me de auis multis…”). This supplement fits into the cod. lat. 366’s handwritten numbering: the manuscripts machine-numbered f.121 originally had the number c19, the fragment was numbered as c20, while f.122 of the codex had the number c21 marked on the upper part of the recto.
The antiphon Benedictus Dominus given only with its incipit on the middle of the fragment’s verso was written in its entirety on the codex’s f.122 recto.
On the upper part of f.121v in the manuscript, there is an entry in Hungarian (a letter draft?), on the fragment’s verso there is a similar – though written by another hand – additional Hungarian entry positioned similarly.
Gábriel Szoliva