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Title

Confessione generale

Call number

Ms. Codex 1263
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944006193503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261134181
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4400619

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, probably Tuscan, with some prayers in Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1400-1450?

Place

Tuscany?, Italy

Summary

A two-part manual of confession for use by a female penitent, probably in a religious order. The first part gives the form for the penitent to confess, structured in a customary way around the ten commandments, the seven mortal sins, the five senses, the twelve articles of faith, the three theological virtues, the four cardinal virtues, and the seven spiritual gifts. The text uses feminine endings and forms, and includes the penitent's confessions of sin, written in the first person and sometimes referring to wrongdoing against her sisters. The second part is a manual to guide priests through the sacrament of confession, again structured around the ten commandments, the seven mortal sins, the five senses, and the theological and cardinal virtues. References to Saint Augustine in both parts (f. 1r, 9v, 29v) may suggest that the context of this manuscript was a religious community under the Rule of Saint Augustine.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title for first part (f. 1r).
   

Extent

30 leaves : 222 x 145 (140 x 84) mm. bound to 232 x 156 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 30 + ii (modern paper); 1-3¹⁰; quires 1-3 signed a1-a5, b1-b5, c1-c5 in lower right recto, with some partly trimmed away; vertical catchword (f. 20 v); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

19th-century morocco (Les Enluminures).

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink; vertical bounding lines.

Script

Written in a rounded humanistic bookhand; some opening and closing words in Roman capitals.

Provenance

• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2008.
   

Subjects topical

• Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Monastic and religious life of women--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Christian
• Devotion
• Instructional materials

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Confessione generale, f. 1r
• fol. 11r — Manual for confessors, f. 11r