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A two-part manual of confession for use by a female penitent, probably in a religious order. The first part gives the form for the penitent to confess, structured in a customary way around the ten commandments, the seven mortal sins, the five senses, the twelve articles of faith, the three theological virtues, the four cardinal virtues, and the seven spiritual gifts. The text uses feminine endings and forms, and includes the penitent's confessions of sin, written in the first person and sometimes referring to wrongdoing against her sisters. The second part is a manual to guide priests through the sacrament of confession, again structured around the ten commandments, the seven mortal sins, the five senses, and the theological and cardinal virtues. References to Saint Augustine in both parts (f. 1r, 9v, 29v) may suggest that the context of this manuscript was a religious community under the Rule of Saint Augustine.
Support: parchment; Extent: 30 leaves : 222 x 145 (140 x 84) mm. bound to 232 x 156 mm; Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 30 + ii (modern paper); 1-3¹⁰; quires 1-3 signed a1-a5, b1-b5, c1-c5 in lower right recto, with some partly trimmed away; vertical catchword (f. 20 v); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 26 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink; vertical bounding lines.
Written in a rounded humanistic bookhand; some opening and closing words in Roman capitals.
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title for first part (f. 1r).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Tuscany?, Italy
Written in Italy, probably in Tuscany, in the first half of the 15th century (Les Enluminures).
19th-century morocco (Les Enluminures).
Italian, probably Tuscan, with some prayers in Latin
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2008.
Tuscany?, Italy
Written in Italy, probably in Tuscany, in the first half of the 15th century (Les Enluminures).
Italian, probably Tuscan, with some prayers in Latin
Sold by Les Enluminures
A two-part manual of confession for use by a female penitent, probably in a religious order. The first part gives the form for the penitent to confess, structured in a customary way around the ten commandments, the seven mortal sins, the five senses, the twelve articles of faith, the three theological virtues, the four cardinal virtues, and the seven spiritual gifts. The text uses feminine endings and forms, and includes the penitent's confessions of sin, written in the first person and sometimes referring to wrongdoing against her sisters. The second part is a manual to guide priests through the sacrament of confession, again structured around the ten commandments, the seven mortal sins, the five senses, and the theological and cardinal virtues. References to Saint Augustine in both parts (f. 1r, 9v, 29v) may suggest that the context of this manuscript was a religious community under the Rule of Saint Augustine.
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title for first part (f. 1r).
Written in a rounded humanistic bookhand; some opening and closing words in Roman capitals.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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