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NICHOLAS OF OSIMO (d.1453), Quadriga Spirituale and ST ANTONINUS OF FLORENCE (1389-1459), Confessionale 'omnis mortalium cura', in Italian, decorated manuscript on vellum [Florence, second half 15th century]
An important practical guide for confessors and penitents, in a contemporary binding, containing two of the most popular manuals on the fundamental principles of a Christian life in the Middle Ages.
226 x 152mm. 187 leaves, modern pagination in pencil 1-374 followed here, 34 lines of text, ruled space: 143 x 95mm. Catchwords survive, rubrics in red (lacking probably one leaf of text at the end, top margin of opening leaf and lower margin of p.113 cut out, some marginal staining). Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, brass bosses, catches and clasps (lacking spine and 3 bosses, somewhat rubbed and stained, a few wormholes).
Provenance: Joseph Besana: late ?19th-century inscription in blue pencil on f.1.
Content: Index for Quadriga Spirituale, pp.1-4; Quadriga spirituale, ch.1-97, beginning ‘Dice lo apostolo quello lo quale no[n] sa [...]’ and ending ‘[...] perdonamo al proximo fiat. Amen’ pp.5-244; Confessionale 'Omnis mortalium cura', ch.1-94, beginning ‘Omnis mortalium cura […]’ and ending ‘e quali a si[m]plici [...]’ pp.245-374.
Both texts are medieval manuals for confession written in the vernacular, and the present compilation must have been produced either within the authors’ lifetimes or within a few decades of their deaths. The texts appear together in another manuscript in Oxford, MS. Add. A. 5. The first, the Quadriga Spirituale of Nicholas of Osimo, is a treatise in four parts that deals with the consequences of sin, and the need for charity, faith, confession and prayer. Nicholas was born in the 1370s in Osimo, in the Marche, and studied law at the University of Bologna. He joined the Observant branch of the Franciscan Order, and was celebrated for his learning, preaching, and writing on theology, the spiritual life, and the Franciscan Rule. He held a number of administrative positions within the order of Observants including that of Vicar Provincial of the Marche and adjutant of the Vicar General, Bernardino of Siena. He died in Rome, most likely in 1453.
The second text, the Confessionale ‘Omnis mortalium cura’, is one of the three confessionals (the other two ‘Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio’ and ‘Curam illius habe’) composed by the Dominican Archbishop of Florence Antoninus of Florence, a contemporary and associate of Cosimo de Medici. An authority on canon law, he was canonized by Pope Adrian VI in 1523. He died on 2 May 1459, and Pope Pius II conducted his funeral.
An important practical guide for confessors and penitents, in a contemporary binding, containing two of the most popular manuals on the fundamental principles of a Christian life in the Middle Ages.
226 x 152mm. 187 leaves, modern pagination in pencil 1-374 followed here, 34 lines of text, ruled space: 143 x 95mm. Catchwords survive, rubrics in red (lacking probably one leaf of text at the end, top margin of opening leaf and lower margin of p.113 cut out, some marginal staining). Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, brass bosses, catches and clasps (lacking spine and 3 bosses, somewhat rubbed and stained, a few wormholes).
Provenance: Joseph Besana: late ?19th-century inscription in blue pencil on f.1.
Content: Index for Quadriga Spirituale, pp.1-4; Quadriga spirituale, ch.1-97, beginning ‘Dice lo apostolo quello lo quale no[n] sa [...]’ and ending ‘[...] perdonamo al proximo fiat. Amen’ pp.5-244; Confessionale 'Omnis mortalium cura', ch.1-94, beginning ‘Omnis mortalium cura […]’ and ending ‘e quali a si[m]plici [...]’ pp.245-374.
Both texts are medieval manuals for confession written in the vernacular, and the present compilation must have been produced either within the authors’ lifetimes or within a few decades of their deaths. The texts appear together in another manuscript in Oxford, MS. Add. A. 5. The first, the Quadriga Spirituale of Nicholas of Osimo, is a treatise in four parts that deals with the consequences of sin, and the need for charity, faith, confession and prayer. Nicholas was born in the 1370s in Osimo, in the Marche, and studied law at the University of Bologna. He joined the Observant branch of the Franciscan Order, and was celebrated for his learning, preaching, and writing on theology, the spiritual life, and the Franciscan Rule. He held a number of administrative positions within the order of Observants including that of Vicar Provincial of the Marche and adjutant of the Vicar General, Bernardino of Siena. He died in Rome, most likely in 1453.
The second text, the Confessionale ‘Omnis mortalium cura’, is one of the three confessionals (the other two ‘Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio’ and ‘Curam illius habe’) composed by the Dominican Archbishop of Florence Antoninus of Florence, a contemporary and associate of Cosimo de Medici. An authority on canon law, he was canonized by Pope Adrian VI in 1523. He died on 2 May 1459, and Pope Pius II conducted his funeral.
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