Lumen [con]fessorum

Name:

Escobar, Andrés de, -approximately 1431

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1431

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.; Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981, former owner.

Relation:

Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/19

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

46 leaves : paper; 314 x 220 (232 x 138) mm bound to 328 x 229 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; 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.; Title from incipit (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-46r: Lumen confessorum.; Table of contents: 2. f.46r-46v: Juramentum minorum penitenciariorum romane curie tempore Eugenii pape IV.; 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).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1215