Beinecke MS 4 (olim Z109.7)                                           Italy, s. XV^^ex
St. Antoninus, Confessionale

          ff. 1r-120v    Incipit confessionale fratri[s erased] Antonini de
     florentia Ad omnes. Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio ait...Si percussit
     aliquem praedicatorum vel iniecit manus temerarias.// [ends abruptly at
     quire twelve; catchwords: vel violentis]

          The text does not correspond closely to any of those listed in
     GKW, v. 2, nos. 2080-2140.

          Paper (watermarks: unidentified bull's head), ff. ii (fragments of
     14th-century liturgical manuscript used as pastedown and flyleaf i,
     with modern paper for ii) + 120 + i (fragments from same 14th century
     manuscript used as back fly-leaf and pastedown), 154 x 103 (95 x 69)
     mm. Written in 23 long lines; horizontal lines ruled in ink, vertical
     in lead, full across; prickings along upper and lower edges.
          I-XII^^10. Catchwords, surrounded by four symmetrically arranged
     flourishes, in center of lower margin.
          Text written by one person in humanistic script; numerous marginal
     and interlinear notes in a slightly later hand.
          Many ornamental capitals of various sizes, 9- to 3-line, in red
     and blue with purple penwork, mark each section of text; some with pale
     shades of yellow, peach, and purple as background. Rubrics (except
     toward end); red, blue, and yellow paragraph marks.
          Binding: s. xv^^ex. Original sewing on three tawed, slit straps,
     kermes pink, laced through tunnels in the thickness of wooden boards
     into rectangular channels on their outer face. Twisted, tawed cores of
     plain, wound endbands laid in grooves. All supports pegged and gypsum
     [?] used to fill in around them. Spine lined with brown calf, wanting
     except under endband tie-downs. Covered in brown calf, blind-tooled
     with a rope interlace panel border. Corner turn-in tongues. Two catches
     on lower board, stubs of straps on upper. Boards worm-eaten and
     detached and most of the cover wanting. Minor repairs to endleaves and
     headband made ca. 1976.

          Written in Italy at the end of the 15th century; early provenance
     unknown. Gift of James Hosmer Penniman, 1921.

     secundo folio: soluas tu

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 162, no. 4.

Barbara A. Shailor