Sentencia beati Augustini de libro retractionum.

Accession number: 
PML 22122
Author: 
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)], [not after 1474]
Description: 
[106] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
"Aurelij augustini episcopi de trinitate liber primus incipit," leaf [1]/1v.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Reyser's type 1:120G (ascribed by Ohly), and tentatively to Heinrich Eggestein by Needham, Christie's, Doheny 19.
The Uppsala and Passau copies have rubricator's dates of 1474. The MS date 1471 in the Vienna ÖNB copy (cf. BMC) is considered doubtful from paper evidence (CIBN).
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5¹²; 6-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11⁶]: 106 leaves, leaf [11]/6 blank. Variant collation in BMC: [1-4¹⁰ 5-6¹² 7-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11⁶].
Paper format: Royal folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 28 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [11]/6 (blank).

Binding: 
18th-century German half calf, with sprinkled paper sides, over paper boards (41 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Decorative paper pastedowns, with plain paper endleaves. Sprinkled edges. Gilt-tooled spine.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, rubrics, headlines, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: 16th/17th-century marginal notations in Latin and Greek (and maybe Hebrew), sporadically throughout, including date at colophon. 18th/19th-century bibliographic citation (leaf [1]/1r).

Provenance: 
Munich, Royal Library, “Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis” stamps (leaves [1]/1r and [11]/5v) and shelfmarks: Inc. Typ. No. 2648 (front endleaf 1 recto), Inc.s.a. 128 and Inc. Dupl. 12231 (front endleaf 1 verso); unidentified shelfmark: S.I_N.202_786 (front endleaf 1 recto); unidentified English sale catalogue description, no. 18 for £26 (front endleaf 1 recto); Giuseppe Martini, collation inscription (erased, front endleaf 1 verso); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Tregaskis, 1923.
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