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Title

Sermones de tribus partibus penitencie ... etc.

Authors

• Nicolaus, von Dinkelsbühl, ca. 1360-1433
• Escobar, Andrés de, d. ca. 1431

Call number

Ms. Codex 1170
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943067353503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227797001
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4306735

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1425-1450

Place

Germany

Summary

Compilation of works on religion: work 1 is a sermon on penance, originally part of a larger collection of sermons; work 2 is a handbook about the sacrament of confession, also published under the title Confessio minor seu modus confitendi; work 3 deals with the state of religion, especially with regards to simony, during the early 15th century; and work 4, bound in separately and originally part of a larger manuscript, is also of a religious nature, and deals with proper behavior in a religious context.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from predominant work, included in table of contents (f. 1r).
   

Extent

184 leaves : 150 x 104 (113 x 72) mm. bound to 160 x 110 mm

Collation

Paper and parchment, 184; 1-15¹² 16⁴; work 1 has catchwords on the lower center verso of the last page of each quire; quires 13-14 have outer and inner conjugate leaves made of parchment; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto; contemporary foliation (f. 2-3) in ink for work 4, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

Near contemporary sheepskin with parchment fragment of a 13th-century manuscript on falconry inside covers (Zacour-Hirsch), which includes text from sections 19-22, 27, and 30 of a treatise titled Guillelmus falconarius inside the upper cover and text from sections 16-17 of a treatise titled Dancus rex inside the lower cover (Baudouin Van den Abeele).

Layout

Ruled in ink.

Decoration

Occasional initials embellished with red; several manicules drawn in lead in the margins (f. 102v, 103v, 109v, 112v, 114r, 122v).

Script

Works 1-3 written in a hybrid script, work 4 in a secretary script, Gothic script on pastedowns.

Provenance

• A note on ownership, has been cut out of the manuscript (f. 1r), though the spine still has a call number, E.i.57.
   
• Sold by Fritz Eggert (Stuttgart), 1969.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Sermons
• Penance--Early works to 1800
• Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Simony--Early works to 1800
• Falconry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Sermons
• Treatises
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Christian
• Paper
• Devotion
• Instructional materials

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Sermones de tribus partibus penitencie, f. 2r
• fol. 146r — Modus confitendi, f. 146r
• fol. 155r — Brevis tractatulus de statu religionis, f. 155r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside front cover
• fol. 102v — Manicule, f. 102v
• fol. 103v — Manicule, f. 103v
• fol. 109v — Manicule, f. 109v
• fol. 112v — Manicule, f. 112v
• fol. 114r — Manicule, f. 114r
• fol. 122v — Manicule, f. 122v
• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf pastedown, Inside back cover