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ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459, Saint). Confessionale, incipit Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. [Venice:] Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, [not after July] 1473.
Mezzo-median 2o (251 x 177 mm). Collation: [1-210 312 4-1210 136] (1/1 text, 13/2v table, 13/6r colophon, 13/6v blank). 128 leaves (including final blank). 35 lines. Roman type 1:97. Initial spaces with printed guide letters. Rubricated: Lombard initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, the first with red and blue floriated border. (First leaf lightly soiled, some other occasional light soiling, mostly marginal, a few rust-holes on the last few leaves catching a few letters, patched on 13/5-6, otherwise fresh and crisp.) 19th-century quarter calf, boards; quarter-morocco folding case. Provenance: foliation and some occasional marginalia in an early hand -- faint impression of a library stamp visible on 1/1 -- purchased from Andrew Stewart, Bourne, 22 March 1985.
The Observant Dominican and reformer, St. Antoninus, archbishop of Florence, composed three different texts on confession which are sometimes treated as parts of a larger work. Published separately under various titles, all three are now usually called Confessionale and are distinguished by their incipits. The present text includes sections on the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating persons of varying status and absolution and imposition of penance. Each of Antoninus's three treatises on confession survives in more than one version; the Defecerunt is known in four redactions. This is one of only a very few books issued from the press of Cremonensis and is SCARCE: the last copy recorded in ABPC was sold in 1972. GW 2103; BMC V, 208 (IB. 20019); Pr 4224; Goff A-797.
Mezzo-median 2o (251 x 177 mm). Collation: [1-210 312 4-1210 136] (1/1 text, 13/2v table, 13/6r colophon, 13/6v blank). 128 leaves (including final blank). 35 lines. Roman type 1:97. Initial spaces with printed guide letters. Rubricated: Lombard initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, the first with red and blue floriated border. (First leaf lightly soiled, some other occasional light soiling, mostly marginal, a few rust-holes on the last few leaves catching a few letters, patched on 13/5-6, otherwise fresh and crisp.) 19th-century quarter calf, boards; quarter-morocco folding case. Provenance: foliation and some occasional marginalia in an early hand -- faint impression of a library stamp visible on 1/1 -- purchased from Andrew Stewart, Bourne, 22 March 1985.
The Observant Dominican and reformer, St. Antoninus, archbishop of Florence, composed three different texts on confession which are sometimes treated as parts of a larger work. Published separately under various titles, all three are now usually called Confessionale and are distinguished by their incipits. The present text includes sections on the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating persons of varying status and absolution and imposition of penance. Each of Antoninus's three treatises on confession survives in more than one version; the Defecerunt is known in four redactions. This is one of only a very few books issued from the press of Cremonensis and is SCARCE: the last copy recorded in ABPC was sold in 1972. GW 2103; BMC V, 208 (IB. 20019); Pr 4224; Goff A-797.