Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Penance -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Confession -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Confession -- Catholic Church.
Penance.
Discipline.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Finding tabs.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Possibly a registrar for the papal penitentiary, a council charged with granting absolution for cases under papal authority. At the same time he was proctor of the Duke of Austria at the papal Curia before becoming bishop in Ciudad Rodrigo in 1408.

Summary:

Treatise on confession and penitence, with a ruling by the penitentiaries in the Roman Curia during the pontificate of Eugenius IV added at the end.

Contents:

1. f.1r-46r: Lumen confessorum.
2. f.46r-46v: Juramentum minorum penitenciariorum romane curie tempore Eugenii pape IV.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Incipit: Lumen confessorum vocatur haec doctrina omnibus penitenconariis et confessoribus... (f. 1r). Explicit: ... lumine nos illuminet illa lux vera quae est Dominus meum Ihesus [?] qui cum Patre et Spiritu Sancto regnat et residet in perpetuo lumine Amen (f. 46r).
Collation: Paper, 46; 1¹¹(+1) 2¹² 3¹⁰ 4¹³(+13); [1-46]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 44-52 lines; horizontal and vertical bounding lines ruled in ink.
Decoration: Red initials, marginal notes, and underlining; manicules in the margins.
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Binding: Slightly later blind-stamped calf, rebacked (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in Germany in the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.

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 (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 8 (Ms. Latin 214).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1215

Contributor:

Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

Contains:

Juramentum minorum penitenciariorum romane curie tempore Eugenii pape IV.

OCLC:

232661520

Web link:

Collation model