Accession number
PML 19224
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title
Incipit tractatus sancti Augustini e[pisco]pi de fuga mulierum.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1470-1472]
Description
[24] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes
GW identifies author as Pseudo- Augustinus.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
Dated by CIBN. GW dates about 1470.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-3⁸]: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 cm.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
Dated by CIBN. GW dates about 1470.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-3⁸]: 24 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 cm.
Binding
20th-century gilt-tooled polished calf over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Ramage. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De fuga mulierum; De continentia; De contemptu mundi. Add: Hieronymus: Epistola ad Paulinum presbyterum; Augustinus: Sermones de vita clericorum.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary (Lower Rhine) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary corrections to caption and incipit for Jerome, Ad Paulinum with marginal notations (leaf [2]/3v).
Provenance
Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown), Huth sale, Sotheby's, part I, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 341; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from L.C. Harper, Jan. 1912.
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