ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459). Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. – Titulus de restitutionibus. [Venice]: Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, [not after July] 1473.
A large, crisp copy of one of three distinct texts on confession by St Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence. It discusses the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating people of different status, and absolution and imposition of penance. H *1176 = 1175; GW 2103; BMC V 208; BSB-Ink A-575; ISTC ia00797000; Goff A-797.
Chancery folio (287 x 213mm). 128 leaves, rubricated, vellum quire guards (occasional faint spotting and small marginal stains). Contemporary deerskin over wooden boards, remains of clasps, front pastedown using manuscript fragment from a 14th-century sacramentary (rebacked, somewhat rubbed, some minor restoration). Provenance: ‘Jo[Hannes] Alfanus’ (early ownership inscription, recording this volume as having been in the collection of Friar Thomas Calbo, after whose death it was given to the Convent of St Catherine at ‘Campin[?]ea’) – contemporary annotations.
ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459). Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. – Titulus de restitutionibus. [Venice]: Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, [not after July] 1473.
A large, crisp copy of one of three distinct texts on confession by St Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence. It discusses the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating people of different status, and absolution and imposition of penance. H *1176 = 1175; GW 2103; BMC V 208; BSB-Ink A-575; ISTC ia00797000; Goff A-797.
Chancery folio (287 x 213mm). 128 leaves, rubricated, vellum quire guards (occasional faint spotting and small marginal stains). Contemporary deerskin over wooden boards, remains of clasps, front pastedown using manuscript fragment from a 14th-century sacramentary (rebacked, somewhat rubbed, some minor restoration). Provenance: ‘Jo[Hannes] Alfanus’ (early ownership inscription, recording this volume as having been in the collection of Friar Thomas Calbo, after whose death it was given to the Convent of St Catherine at ‘Campin[?]ea’) – contemporary annotations.
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