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Libellus de modo confitendi et poenitendi and other works (MS B.4).

Accession number
MS B.4
Object title
Libellus de modo confitendi et poenitendi and other works (MS B.4).
Display Date
ca. 1486.
Created
Netherlands, ca. 1486.
Binding
Calf.
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Description
206 leaves (1 column, 21 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 193 x 97 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Curt F. Bühler at Sotheby's (London, 6 February, 1933, lot 75).
Notes
Ms. textual miscellany; written and decorated in the Netherlands shortly after Jan. 28, 1486.
Texts: Modus confitendi (fol. 1-54v.); Antonius de Butrio, Speculum de confessione (fol. 55-135); Johannes Nider, Manuale confessorum (fol. 135v-174); Ars moriendi, incomplete (fol. 175-206v).
The scribe copied the first tract, including the colophon, with printer's name and date, from Gerard Leeu's Antwerp edition of Jan. 28, 1486 (Campbell, Annales 1130). He wrote Octava die Januarii in mistake for vicesima octava. See Bühler, 1940, p. 66
Decoration: numerous filigree initials.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Classification