Liber sancti Gregorii paper de conflictu viciorum atq[ue] virtutum.

Accession number: 
PML 24647
Author: 
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Published: 
[Utrecht] : [Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt], [about 1474]
Description: 
[26] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1927.
Notes: 

In this edition attributed to Gregorius I, this is conventionally attributed to Augustinus, and is probably by Ambrosius Autpertus.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Ketelaer and de Leempt's type 1B:122G.
Collation: [1-2⁸ 3¹⁰]: 26 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [3]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.5 cm.

Binding: 
Modern full calf, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over wooden boards (29.5 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified (Nijhoff?) catalogue description, no. 164; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Nijhoff, June 1927.
Classification: 
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