[Liturgical and devotional miscellany] : manuscript

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 118 fol. : 120 x 90 mm Manuscript Binding: Half bound in light brown calf over marbled pasteboards, with the spine decorated in blind-stamped floral motifs Acquired with funds bequeathed by P.O. Kristeller and with funds from the Gabe M. Wiener Music and Arts Library of Columbia University Shelfmark: MS Western 84 Incipit: ff. 1-31: Qui converti fecerit peccatorem ab errore vie sue salvabit animam suam a morte . . . Jacobus quinto capitulo. Questa colecta **?*** mediante la confessione la quale **?*** de la scientia per che dove se versa magiore pericula piu cautamente se deve andare. ff. 31-51: Sunt enim primo interrogandi de iniectione manuum in personam ecclesiasticam, Da poi adomandali de la confessione et comunione, de la penitentia, de inobedientia, de busie, de dessonesta, de audire messe, de furti et simile Explicit: "ma nel tacto mortale quando se fa per cause de luxuria overo per delectatione" ff. 1-113, parchment; ff. 114-118, paper Lists of reserved sins; 10 comandments; 7 sins, each with its own "daughters" (usually 10), e.g. the daughters of Superbia: Ambizione, Presumptione, Curiositas, Ingratitudo, Iudicium temerarium, Adulatio, Irrisio, Temptatio, Pertinacia, Arrogantia List of status of persons who are confessing, from 60 ("pueros") to 108 ("infirmos"; not numbered or rubricated); directions in Latin to the priest; absolution prayer; an alphabetical table of the sinners' status with reference to folio number Excerpt; with musical notation on 4-line staves Ends with prayers to the Virgin (mentioning Francis by initial only) and to Sebastian for protection against the plague Lines of chant usually indicated for the "Cantus" and the "Tenor"; initial brief sections for "Lauda," "Gaude Virgo," "Gaude," and "Lauda Sion"; thereafter 9 laude with musical notation in Italian with these incipits: O Maria diana stella che reluci piu ch'el sole / La mi