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Tractatu de instructione seu directio[n]e simpliciu[m] co[n]fessor[um].

Accession number
PML 78154.2
Creator
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459.
Object title

Tractatu de instructione seu directio[n]e simpliciu[m] co[n]fessor[um].

Published

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [about 1470]

Description

[144] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/4r): Prologus sup[er] Tractatu de instructione seu directio[n]e simpliciu[m] co[n]fessor[um]. Editu[m] a d[omi]no Anthonino archiep[iscop]o flore[n]tino. Defeceru[n]t scrutantes scrutineo ayt psalmista...
Explicit (leaf [18]/3r): Explici[un]t Summa [con]fessionu[m]. seu Interrogatorium pro simplicibus Co[n]fessorib[us] Editu[m] Ab Arch[i]ep[iscop]o flore[n]tino. videlic[em]. fr[atr]e Anthonion ordinis predicatorum.
Printed in Zell's types 1b:106/111G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1-18⁸]: 144 leaves, leaf [18]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 14.5 cm.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Rose Stadtbuchbinder workshop in Cologne (EBDB w000169/Kyriss 100); spine cover wanting and leather peeling from boards. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Hebrew manuscript offset to leather turn-ins of top board. Vellum quire guards, including two fragments of the Mainz Catholicon, leaf [13]/1 (ISTC ib00020000, see also Powitz, Handschriften der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main) at leaves [8]/4.5 and [16]/4.5 of Antoninus, Confessionale.
Variant title
Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks (C-type), and underlining. Annotations: Several words scratched in margins. Manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures at bottom right corner of text block, quires a-s. Contemporary manuscript foliation and foliation added to tabula.
Provenance
Unidentified Dominican convent (Frankfurt/Main?), "Ord pd[rum]" inscription (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified German inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/1r of Augustine) and contents, early 19th century(?) (front endleaf 4 verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased Christie's London, 30 May 1984, lot 10.
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