Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Sermons.
Catholic Church.
Simony.
Confession -- Catholic Church.
Penance.
Penance -- Early works to 1800.
Confession -- Catholic Church -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Simony -- Early works to 1800.
Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
Falconry.

Form/Genre:

Sermons.
Codices.
Treatises.
Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Handbooks and manuals.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Compilation of works on religion: work 1 is a sermon on penance, originally part of a larger collection of sermons; work 2 is a handbook about the sacrament of confession, also published under the title Confessio minor seu modus confitendi; work 3 deals with the state of religion, especially with regards to simony, during the early 15th century; and work 4, bound in separately and originally part of a larger manuscript, is also of a religious nature, and deals with proper behavior in a religious context.

Contents:

1. f.2r-142r: Sermones de tribus partibus penitencie / Nicolaus von Dinkelsbühl.
2. f.146r-154v: Modus confitendi / Andrés de Escobar.
3. f.155r-169v: Brevis tractatulus de statu religionis.
4. f.181r-184v: [Fragment]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from predominant work, included in table of contents (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper and parchment, 184; 1-15¹² 16⁴; work 1 has catchwords on the lower center verso of the last page of each quire; quires 13-14 have outer and inner conjugate leaves made of parchment; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto; contemporary foliation (f. 2-3) in ink for work 4, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Ruled in ink.
Script: Works 1-3 written in a hybrid script, work 4 in a secretary script, Gothic script on pastedowns.
Decoration: Occasional initials embellished with red; several manicules drawn in lead in the margins (f. 102v, 103v, 109v, 112v, 114r, 122v).
Binding: Near contemporary sheepskin with parchment fragment of a 13th-century manuscript on falconry inside covers (Zacour-Hirsch), which includes text from sections 19-22, 27, and 30 of a treatise titled Guillelmus falconarius inside the upper cover and text from sections 16-17 of a treatise titled Dancus rex inside the lower cover (Baudouin Van den Abeele).
Origin: Written in Germany during the second quarter of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

A note on ownership, has been cut out of the manuscript (f. 1r), though the spine still has a call number, E.i.57.
Sold by Fritz Eggert (Stuttgart), 1969.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 37, number 2 (1971), p. 108 (Ms. Latin 255).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1170

Contains:

Escobar, Andrés de, -approximately 1431.
Confessio minor seu modus confitendi.
Brevis tractatulus de statu religionis.
Guillelmus falconarius.
Dancus rex.

OCLC:

227797006

Web link:

Collation model