"150 by 100mm, 123 leaves (plus 3 modern paper endleaves at each end), complete, catchwords on every quire except last, collation: i-xi10, xii13 (this only probable, the quire including 3 original leaves at end ruled but left blank, and probably wanting a blank cancel from end), double column of 31 lines of a late gothic bookhand, rubrics, paraph marks and simple initials in red, a few near-contemporary marginalia, space left for an initial on fol. 1v, slight thumbing to edges of a few leaves, else in outstanding condition ; bound in nineteenth-century French gilt-tooled morocco over pasteboards, with gilt ""Antoninus De censure Ecclesiastice et excommunicatione"" and ""15e siècle"" on spine, richly gilt-tooled inside boards, leaves marbled and gilt-edged, some splitting of front board from book-block, slight bumps to a few edges"
"A fine and handsome portable copy of this work. Antoninus Florentinus (1389-1459; born Antonio Pierozzi to a wealthy Florentine family) entered the Dominican Order at the age of sixteen and distinguished himself by his aptitude in canon law and theology. By 1433 he was serving as vicar of the Florentine congregation, and in 1446 at the instigation of Pope Eugene IV he was appointed archbishop of Florence, a position he held until his death. He was canonised in 1523. His works were numerous, and the present manuscript contains his De censuris ecclesiasticis (opening ""Excommunicatio dicitur exclusio a communione …""), a lengthy treatise on the censures that the Church could use, most notably excommunication. It also formed part of his grand Summa moralis. It was printed as a stand-alone work in Venice in 1474, and as part of the Summa moralis in Venice and Nuremberg in 1477, but also circulated widely in manuscript. Sufficient differences of layout, orthography and content exist here to show that this manuscript almost certainly does not derive from a printed text"
