175C. Manuscript "Romanian Miscellany (Explanation of the Liturgy, Teaching of Seven Mysteries)", by Roman from Zănoi[?], 1711-1713
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175C. Manuscript "Romanian Miscellany (Explanation of the Liturgy, Teaching of Seven Mysteries)", by Roman from Zănoi[?], 1711-1713
Starting price:
EUR 300
16 x 12.5 cm
Format in 8°, with pages [49]-[100], [102]-[160]; pages [1]-[48], [101], and those after [160] are missing, hence the end of the manuscript. The bookbinding, of contemporary making, is made of cardboard covered in brown leather. The conservation state of the binding is good. The book block is in a relatively good conservation state; signs of wear, dirt, moisture stains, minor traces of xylophagous attack, frayed pages and partial loss of paper support can be seen.
The book presents the following ex-libris: page [66]r: "Niculae Sinu"; page [118]v-[119]r: "Mr. Nicolae Sinu Copacel 1900"; page [143]r: "George Sinu"; page [145]v: "lonu Grecu"; page [146]r: "Grecu lonu"; page [150]r: "Nicolae Sinu from Copacel 1895".
The following inscriptions are present: page [51]r: "N. Sin insurance [?] 1901 at the cheese week [?]"; page [55]r: "N. Sin katana voltan"; page [67]r: "Finished and to God praise and this book was printed [sic!] in Anno Mundi 7221 [1713]. Through the labor of Gheorighie Radovici. And I, Roman from Zănoi[?], wrote it"; page [76]v: "And I, Popa Bucur from Copacel, saw it too"; page [85]r: "And these pages I, Roman G[?] wrote in Anno Mundi 7220 [1711] November 4"; page [121]v-[123]r: "Let it be known that this book belongs to parish priest Ion from Copacel and whoever tempts to steal it, let him be cursed by 318 fathers"; page [147]v: "Let it be known when Spiridon was born, Anno Mundi 1770, 4th September"; page [148]r: "Let it be known when I, David Sin, got married, Anno Mundi 1763".
The manuscript begins with the first page of notebook number 7 (notebook has 8 pages); calculating the other 6 notebooks, of 8 pages each, results that the first preserved page is the one with the number [49]. The page count shows that, besides the first [48] pages, page [101] is missing (it can be noticed it was torn), as well as the pages from [161] to the end of the manuscript. Therefore, the numbering of the manuscript pages is: [49]-[100], [102]-[160].
Romanian manuscript, miscellany, containing fragments from Liturgy and the Instruction of Seven Sacraments. According to the copyist's note on page [67]r, the model was the Liturgy printed by Gheorghe Radovici in Târgoviște, in 1713. Another part of the manuscript was dated, also by the copyist, in 1711; another source could be the Instruction of Seven Sacraments, printed in Buzău in 1702.
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