Details

Standardized Title:

Omnis mortalium cura. Italian.

Other Title:

Specchio di coscienza.

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Confession -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Penance -- Early works to 1800.
Penance.
Confession -- Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Penitentials.
Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Handbooks and manuals.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Manual on confession by Saint Antoninus Florentinus (f. 1r-103r). This work is also known as Speccio di coscienza. This appears to be a copy of the version ending "la dicta età" (in this manuscript spelled "la detta eta." At the end are some later additions, dated 1557.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Incipit: Omnis mortalium cura quam multiplicium studiorum laborum exarat ... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 111 + i (modern paper); [i], [1-110]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right or lower right corner of some rectos. There are also traces of an original foliation, lower right recto, that does not generally coincide with the modern one. The one unnumbered folio before f. 1 is parchment, probably part of the original wrapper.
Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by what appears to be a single hand. Additions dated 1557 (f. 103v-105v) are themselves mostly in a single hand, except for the owner's note (f. 103r) and the poem (f. 110v).
Binding: 18th-century half-leather with boards wrapped in marbled paper. Spine has a gold crown and the letters "F. S.," probably for F. Strozzi.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Some leaves stained, especially at edges. Some wormhole damage. Cover wearing at edges and outside hinges. Back outside hinge completely split.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Joanes Pauli Civitella, dated 1557 (signature, f. 103r); Giovanni di Paulo (poem, f. 110v); F. Strozzi (Zacour-Hirsch).
Acquired, 1959.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 100 (Ms. Italian 39).
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. 2. Aufl. (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1968-1972; originally published: Leipzig: K. W. Hiersemann, 1925-1938), 2158-2169. Re: early printed editions of this work.
Hain, Ludwig. Repertorium bibliographicum (Milano: Görlich, [1966]; originally published: Stuttgart, 1826-1838), 1216. Re: early printed editions of this work.
Quétif, Jacques. Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum recensiti, notisque historicis et criticis. Inchoavit Jacobus Quétif absolvit Jacobus Échard (New York: B. Franklin, [1959-1961]; originally published: Paris: J. B. C. Ballard and N. Simart, 1719-1723), I. 819.
Wetzer, Heinrich Joseph. Wetzer und Welte's Kirchenlexicon. 2. Aufl. (Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1882-1903), I. 985.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 281.

OCLC:

155964256

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