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Title

Specchio de coscienza

Authors

• Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459

Call number

Ms. Codex 272
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915808843503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122528345
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580884

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with short "Missa" text at end in Latin

Origin

Date

1466

Place

Stagno

Summary

Text of a Confessionale in Italian by Saint Antoninus, in the form ending "la dicta età" (in this manuscript spelled "alla detta eta"). Some leaves at the beginning are missing. At the end (f. 81v) are 13 lines of a "Missa pro morbo evitando."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Colophon (f. 81v): Finitum die XXI aprilis 1466 per me miserum Andream et indignum sacerdotem filium Bartoli de Lunigiana rure dicta Stagnone.
   
• Cover in very poor condition. Leather badly deteriorated; upper cover board completely detached, lower board loose. Front endleaf detached. Stains on upper and outer edge of most leaves. Some indications of worm damage.
   
• Saint Antoninus wrote three treatises that comprise the Confessional. This Italian text is original, not translated from Latin. Its earliest impression is Italy, unknown town and printer, dated 1472 (See notes of bookseller Jacques Rosenthal on file in the Library).
   
• Inscription on verso of back flyleaf: "Iste liber est meus presbiter Domenico de Mairis."
   

Extent

81 leaves : 209 x 143 (139 x 73) mm. bound to 210 x 140 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (parchment) + 81 + i (parchment); [1-81]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half-leather over wooden boards.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script

Written in a humanistic script by Andreas son of Bartolus de Lunigiana (colophon, f. 81v).

Colophon

Colophon (f. 81v): Finitum die XXI aprilis 1466 per me miserum Andream et indignum sacerdotem filium Bartoli de Lunigiana rure dicta Stagnone.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Confession--Early works to 1800
• Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800
• Penance--Early works to 1800
• Penitentials--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Keywords

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

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