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Co[n]fessionale d[omi]ni Antonini archiepiscopi Florentini

Archive Print Item: BC Incunabula/ANT

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Type of record: Book

Title: Co[n]fessionale d[omi]ni Antonini archiepiscopi Florentini

Other titles: Confessionale domini Antonini archiepiscopi Florentini; Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula/ANT

Creator(s): Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459)

Additional creator(s): Flach, Martin (1500) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Flach, Martin; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: per Martinu[m] flach; Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg)

Publication city: Argentine imp[re]ssa [Strassburg]

Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni. Mccccxc. [1490]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 148 leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/38871

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007722739705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a-r⁸ s-t⁶.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on t5v reads: Utilissima [con]fessio[n]is summula a revere[n]dissimo in christo patre ac d[omi]no: d[omi]no Antonino Archiep[iscop]o Florentino edita. Argentine imp[ress]a per Martinu[m] flach. Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxc. finit feliciter.


Printed in two columns with 35 lines to a full column.


Leaves 2-142 are numbered I-CXLI. Leaves 143-147 form the table.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Headlines, giving the foliation on the recto and a running title of the part of the book on the verso.


The final leaf is blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00825000.


Indexed in: Hain *1198; Goff A825; BMC I 150.

Features

Most major initials are supplied in red.


The first major initial on numbered leaf I is decorated in red and also features a miniature portrait in black ink manuscript of bearded face in profile.


The major initial on numbered leaf XCVII contains a miniature portrait in black ink manuscript.


Paragraph markers and capital strokes supplied in red.


Inserted at the end of the book is a loose leaf with ink manuscript illustrations of four human heads, three large and one small, below an inscription, sixteenth-century: per fratrem Conradu[m] wolgemut [...].


Bindings


Quarter binding of vellum manuscript over thick wooden boards with a spine of pale brown calf. In very neat manuscript on the vellum is a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century rubricated theological text. A leather catch is nailed to the lower board with a decorated metal hasp catching on the upper board. Inside the book are stubs of rubricated vellum manuscript. The spine has two raised bands and is blind-tooled with triple fillets with a design of stylised foliage on the upper and lower covers. There are single lozenge-shaped ornaments blind-tooled on the second and third panels of the spine. A lettering piece in the first panel bears the title in ink manuscript: Confessionale Anthoninj. There is some damage to the both the head and tail of the spine. Size: 212 x 156mm. Leaf size: 201 x 146mm.

Provenance

Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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