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ST ANTONINO OF FLORENCE, [Antoninus Florentinus, 1389-1459], Confessionale (inc. Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio), in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON PARCHMENT
Florence, 1502
167 x 122mm. 112 leaves: 1-812, 98, 10-114, COMPLETE, contemporary foliation '1-101', as corrected, followed here, opening 9-LINE INITIAL DECORATED IN BLUE AND RED WITH EXTENSIVE FLOURISHING, 2- to 3-line initials in red, red paragraph marks, underlining and capital strokes, rubrics in red, 25 lines of cursive bookhand, catchwords throughout (marginal dampstaining, first and final quires repaired at hinge, some soiling on first and final leaves, a few wormholes). Limp vellum using a leaf from a 15th-century choirbook (slightly warped, light soiling).
PROVENANCE:
1. Colophons on ff.95v and 101 reveal that the manuscript was written in Florence in 1502 and finished on the 2nd of August. Most probably A CONFESSOR'S HANDBOOK, we can infer from its form, accessible index and practical layout that it was intended for quotidian use. The later textual additions on ff.101v-9v, in at least three different hands, show that it continued to serve this function and probably still in Tuscany into the 17th century.
CONTENT:
St Antonino, Confessionale ff.1-95v; Collige deplora fuge crimina dulcius ora ff.96-101; Excerpts and incipits from a variety of canonical texts, including Antonino's De Sermo Penitentia and his De ornatu mulierum from the Summa Moralis, and also edicts from the Third Council of Carthage (397), citations from Albinus, Augustine and other fathers of the Church ff.101v-104v; Compendium of Christian doctrine ff.105-107v; template for confession, in Italian, ff.108-109v; Table of contents ff.110-112.
The Observant Dominican reformer St Antonino was Archbishop of Florence from 1446 until his death in 1459. A dedicated student of history and theology, his principal literary achievement was the Summa Theologica Moralis, partibus IV distincta, written shortly before his death, which marked a new and very considerable step forward in the development of a certain type of moral theology. He composed three different texts on confession, all three now usually called Confessionale but distinguished by their incipits. The present text, beginning Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio, includes sections on the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating persons of varying status, absolution and the imposition of penance. Of interest is the template for a woman's confession found in the second to last quire, written in a 17th-century Italian hand and detailing the numerous and varied pitfalls to which a female sinner might be prone -- vanity, profanity, excesses of the body and of the mind.
Florence, 1502
167 x 122mm. 112 leaves: 1-812, 98, 10-114, COMPLETE, contemporary foliation '1-101', as corrected, followed here, opening 9-LINE INITIAL DECORATED IN BLUE AND RED WITH EXTENSIVE FLOURISHING, 2- to 3-line initials in red, red paragraph marks, underlining and capital strokes, rubrics in red, 25 lines of cursive bookhand, catchwords throughout (marginal dampstaining, first and final quires repaired at hinge, some soiling on first and final leaves, a few wormholes). Limp vellum using a leaf from a 15th-century choirbook (slightly warped, light soiling).
PROVENANCE:
1. Colophons on ff.95v and 101 reveal that the manuscript was written in Florence in 1502 and finished on the 2nd of August. Most probably A CONFESSOR'S HANDBOOK, we can infer from its form, accessible index and practical layout that it was intended for quotidian use. The later textual additions on ff.101v-9v, in at least three different hands, show that it continued to serve this function and probably still in Tuscany into the 17th century.
CONTENT:
St Antonino, Confessionale ff.1-95v; Collige deplora fuge crimina dulcius ora ff.96-101; Excerpts and incipits from a variety of canonical texts, including Antonino's De Sermo Penitentia and his De ornatu mulierum from the Summa Moralis, and also edicts from the Third Council of Carthage (397), citations from Albinus, Augustine and other fathers of the Church ff.101v-104v; Compendium of Christian doctrine ff.105-107v; template for confession, in Italian, ff.108-109v; Table of contents ff.110-112.
The Observant Dominican reformer St Antonino was Archbishop of Florence from 1446 until his death in 1459. A dedicated student of history and theology, his principal literary achievement was the Summa Theologica Moralis, partibus IV distincta, written shortly before his death, which marked a new and very considerable step forward in the development of a certain type of moral theology. He composed three different texts on confession, all three now usually called Confessionale but distinguished by their incipits. The present text, beginning Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio, includes sections on the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating persons of varying status, absolution and the imposition of penance. Of interest is the template for a woman's confession found in the second to last quire, written in a 17th-century Italian hand and detailing the numerous and varied pitfalls to which a female sinner might be prone -- vanity, profanity, excesses of the body and of the mind.
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Please note that this manuscript is on paper and not parchment, as stated in the catalogue.
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Annegret Pettigrew
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