[Confessionale].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459

Contributor:

Bonvesino, Marco, former owner.

Vimercati Sozzi, Paolo, 1801-1883, former owner.

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Standardized Title:

Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Discipline.

Catholic Church.

Breviary (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.

Genre:

Texts.

codices (bound manuscripts)

penitentials

manuals (instructional materials)

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn 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).

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1450 and 1499]

Language Note:

Latin.

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.

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.

Layout: Written in 18 long lines; ruled in lead.

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).

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).

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.

Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 150 (Ms. Lea 18).

Listed in De Ricci, Seymour. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, v. 2, p. 2107, no. 7.

Listed in Kaeppeli, Thomas. Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum medii aevi, v. 1, p. 94, no. 256 (Lea 18).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 68

OCLC:

155962954

Online:

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