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Bod-Inc: A-335

Antoninus Florentinus

Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio [Italian] Interrogatorio sopra le confessioni. Explicit: ‘Exprimentia consensum.’

 

Analysis of Content

a1r [Title and woodcut.] ‘Tractato uolgare di frate Antonio arciuescouo di Firenze intitolato Defecerunt, che insegna al confessore di che chasi et in che modo debbe domandare colui che egli confessa'.

a2r Antoninus Florentinus: [Prologue.] Incipit: ‘  “Defecerunt scruptantes scruptinio”, ait psalmista lxiii [Ps 63,7]. Lo scruptinio el quale e la confessione nella quale il penitente discute e ricerca la conscientia sua . . .’ See A‑334.

a2r Antoninus Florentinus: Interrogatorio sopra le confessioni. ‘Tractato chiamato interroghatorio . . . sopra le confessioni'. Incipit: ‘Quanto al primo cioe della auctorita del confessore e da sapere che quegli che non sono sacerdoti non possono udire le confessioni . . .hai ueduto di sopra’ See A‑334; also Orlandi 320 no. (B) 2.

o8r [Colophon.] BMC VI 683 notes that ‘the colophon is printed in a peculiar shape, perhaps intended to represent an altar.’

*1r ‘Tauola.’

Imprint

Imprint: Florence: Lorenzo Morgiani and Johannes Petri, for Piero Pacini, 22 Feb. 1496. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a–o8 [*]2.

Illustrations: Woodcut of S. Antoninus confessing a penitent on a1r; see BMC VI 683; on a2r a historiated woodcut initial ‘D' with King David playing the harp; see BMC VI 680.

References

ISTC: ia00836000

GW: GW 2142;

Hain: HCR 1211;

Goff: Goff A‑836;

BMC: BMC VI 683;

Proctor: Pr 6370;

Others: CIBN A‑437; Kristeller no. 26; Sander 428; Sheppard 5246.

LCN: 14268519

Copies

Copy number: A-335(1)

Gathering [*] bound between a1 and a2.

Binding: Eighteenth-century Italian quarter red morocco for Boutourlin(?); marbled pastedowns.

Size: 205 × 142 × 20 mm.

Size of leaf: 197 × 132 mm.

Occasional marginal notes and pointing hands. Inscription on a1r recording the reception at Pomino of the news of the canonisation of Antoninus by Pope Adrian VI, on 1 June 1523: ‘A di primo di giugno 1523 circa a ore 2 di notte vene le nuoue della | canonizatione dell'arciuescouo antoigno fatto par adriano vi Po[n]t[ific]e M[a]s[simo]'. Verses on a1r: ‘Ante deum stantes non sitis corde vagantes | Si cor non orat, in uanum lingua laborat', first line corresponds to Walther, Proverbia, 1120, the second does not.

Provenance: Jacobo di Davide (fifteenth/sixteenth century); inscription on a1r: ‘Di Ser Jacobo di dauitte da pomino'. Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); armorial book-plate and shelfmark no. 558, deleted and replaced with 559 in pencil; see Catalogue (1831); sale (1841), lot 82. Purchased for £1. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 4.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 5.61.


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