Accession number
PML 79085
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title
Sermones sancti Augustini ad heremitas.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Prüss], [not after 1487]
Description
[108] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
On the date see BMC reprint. The copy there referred to as dated 1487 is now at McGill University, purchased "anno lxxxvij".
Printed in Prüss's types 4:300G, 7:156G, and 8:80G.
Signatures: A-M⁸ N-O⁶: 108 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
On the date see BMC reprint. The copy there referred to as dated 1487 is now at McGill University, purchased "anno lxxxvij".
Printed in Prüss's types 4:300G, 7:156G, and 8:80G.
Signatures: A-M⁸ N-O⁶: 108 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13 cm.
Binding
20th-century paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), covered in a leaf from Biblia latina ([Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch, for Anton Koberger at Nuremberg, not after 1480]) (Goff B-607), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Sermones ad heremitas
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Eichstätt (Bavaria), Fürstbischöfliche Hofbibliothek, Bibliotheca Aulica, inscription: "Ad Bibl: aul: Eystettensem," 17th/18th century (leaf A1r); Maggs Bros., unidentified catalogue description (front pastedown); unidentified/erased pencil inscriptions (leaf A1r); Arthur Kay (d. 1939), engraved bookplate (front pastedown), his sale: Sotheby's London, 26 May 1930, lot 37, purchased by: Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 22, bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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