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Title

Confessionale.

Authors

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

Other related names

• Bonvesino, Marco, former owner
• Vimercati Sozzi, Paolo, 1801-1883, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017163771)
• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50041341)

Call number

Ms. Codex 68
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915806183503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122647522
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3x34n24m http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/116

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1499

Place

Italy

Summary

Manual for confessors and penitents with the incipit of the shorter recension (Kaeppeli) and minor variations from printed editions (reader note in pencil, flyleaf 2 recto).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch and a 19th- or early 20th-century note, flyleaf 2 recto).
   
• Incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) [D]efecerunt scrutantes scrutinio ait psalmus. Scrutantes aliorum peccata sunt confessores. Scrutinium autem est inquisitio facta in confessione ... (f. 201r) reservo tibi plenariam indulgentiam concessam a prefato de papa. In articulo mortis. In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti. Amen.
   
• A small slip of paper with a brief note in Latin, used as a bookmark, appears to be much later in date than the manuscript (laid in between f. 155-156).
   
• Folios [i] and [iv] at the beginning of the volume are parchment; they are fragments from a late 12th-century Italian breviary written in transitional script (or protogothic script), with prayers to St. Callistus (14 Oct.), St. Gall (16 Oct.), St. Luke (18 Oct.), and Sts. Simon and Jude (28 Oct.), as well as the liturgy for the Common of Martyrs.
   

Extent

207 leaves : 158 x 109 (89 x 62) mm bound to 163 x 102 mm

Collation

Paper and parchment, i (modern paper) + iv (contemporary paper and reused parchment) + 207; [iv], 1-146, 148-201, 201, [202-207]; 1-9¹², 10¹²(-1), 11-16¹², 17-18⁸. There is a stub between f. 114 and 115; near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords in center lower margin, last verso of each gathering, in a simple frame. Gatherings signed a-i, k-r, lower right recto in first half of gathering. Folio references in this record are to the visible foliation in the manuscript. Link to collation model at end of record.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century Italian[?] half leather/mottled paper over cardboard; paper label with printed 4 on upper left front cover, probable 19th-century shelfmark; leather worn around hinges, head of spine pulling away, spine and back of cover completely detached from book block.

Layout

Written in 18 long lines; ruled in lead.

Decoration

Two 3-line multicolored decorated initials (f. 1r, 96r) and two 2-line multicolored decorated initials (f. 103v, 156v), formerly with bar or foliate borders in the left and upper margins, all now partially or completely cut away; frequent 2-line initials, either blue with red penwork or red with mauve or purple penwork; red paragraph marks and initials touched with yellow throughout; two reader manicules (f. 57v, 98v).

Script

Written in an Italian Gothic rotunda script. The last leaves of the text are written by a slightly later semicursive hand (f. 200r-201r).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Marco Bonvesino in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch; owner inscription in ink, Hic liber est presbiteri marci bonvesini f. [ii] recto).
   
• Formerly owned by Conte Paolo Vimercati Sozzi (Bergamo, 19th century; bookplate, flyleaf 2 verso).
   
• Sold by Ulrich Hoepli (Milan) to Henry Charles Lea, cat. 83 (1893), no. 149, 1893 (note in ink by Henry Charles Lea, flyleaf 2 recto).
   
• Bequest of Henry Charles Lea to the University of Pennsylvania, 1909 (Lea Library bookplate, inside front cover; canceled Lea Library shelfmarks in pencil (G.1.22, V.5.3, V.2.26).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Catholic Church
• Discipline
• Catholic Church--Breviary--Specimens
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Liturgics
• Penance
• Confession--Catholic Church
• Confession--Early works to 1800
• Confession
• Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800
• Penance--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Texts
• Codices
• Penitentials
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Handbooks and manuals
• Handbooks and manuals

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Inside front cover — Bookplate

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial D[?]
• fol. 57v — Manicule
• fol. 96r — Illuminated initial, Initial N
• fol. 98v — Manicule
• fol. 103v — Illuminated initial, Initial C
• fol. 156v — Illuminated initial, Initial C