Bod-Inc: A-334
Antoninus Florentinus
Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio [Italian]. Explicit: ‘Defecerunt vulghare'.
Analysis of Content
[*1r] [Title-page.]
[*1v] ‘Tabule.’
a1r Antoninus Florentinus: [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘ “[D]efecerunt scruptantes scruptinio”, ait psalmista lxiii [Ps 63,7]. Lo scruptinio el quale e la confessione in nella quale il penitente discute e ricercha la conscientia sua . . .’ See Bloomfield 1500.
a1v Antoninus Florentinus: Defecerunt vulghare [Italian]. [Also known as Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio.] Incipit: ‘Quanto al primo cioe della auctorita del confessore e da sapere che quegli che non sono sacerdoti non possono udire le confessioni . . .’ See Kaeppeli I 92-6 no. 256; Orlandi 319 no. (B) 1.
x6r [Colophon.]
[y1r] [Antoninus Florentinus]: [On excommunication.] Incipit: ‘Scomunicationi che solo al papa s'apertiene labso. La prima se alcun bacte cherico o religioso uiolentemente . . .’ In other editions transmitted as the final section of the ‘Defecerunt.’
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: Francesco di Dino, [c.1492]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [*]4 a–u8 x6 [y]4.
Remarks: Leaf a1 not signed; a2-3 are signed ai–ii.
References
ISTC: ia00835000
GW: GW 2141;
Hain: HCR 1210;
Goff: Goff A‑835;
BMC: BMC VI 634-5;
Proctor: Pr 6137;
Others: Sheppard 5094.
LCN: 14268628
Copies
Copy number: A-334(1)
Binding: Twentieth-century quarter brown russia over modern wooden boards, with clasps.
Size: 218 × 138 × 41 mm.
Size of leaf: 193 × 130 mm.
On the recto of the back parchment endleaf, notes on baptisms of members of the Montauti family, from 1564 to 1569. On the verso is a circular floral drawing, in black ink, produced using a compass. Occasional marginal annotations.
One- to three-line initials are supplied in blue.
Provenance: Antonio Montauti, ‘Chericho di Sagrestia', 1586; inscription on [y4v]. Ottavio Paolsanti (eighteenth century). Abbot Paolsanti. Giuseppe Maria Salvetti (†1739), from Abbot Paolsanti; inscription on [*1r]: ‘Questo libro fu donato a me F. Giuseppe Maria Saluetti Servita, Sacerdote indegnissimo, e fiorentino dall'Illustrissimo Signor Abate [ ] Paolsanti, ed era d[e]ll'Illustrissimo Signor Ottauio suo fratello, e me lo diede per gratitudine per auer io assistito alla sua morte seguita adi [ ]'. Acrostic IMS/cross, AI and ‘3' on the upper margin, in the same hand. Oval stamp, with shield showing two lions combatant, on [*1r]. Inside the upper cover a circular engraving, 16 mm diameter, of the head of a dog baillonné; also in A‑334, C‑147 and D‑003; the arms of dell'Osso of Ravenna are a dog baillonné seated. Purchased from Francesco Perrella, Naples, 4 Oct. 1900 for 71.70 Lire; see Library Bills.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I9.1.
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