Prologus beati Augustini in libru[m] de vita cristiana feliciter inchoat.

Accession number:

PML 75

Author:

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.

Published:

[Cologne] : Per me Olricum Zel de Hanau clericum diocesis Moguntinensis, Anno etc. sexagesimoseptimo [(14)67].

Description:

[56] leaves; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Attributed to Pseudo- Augustinus (GW). The work has been doubtfully attributed to Pelagius or Fastidius (Hillard 236).
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Prologus beati Augustini in libru[m] de vita cristiana feliciter inchoat.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [7]/8r: Explicit Liber beati Augustini ep[iscop]i de singularitate clericorum. Per me Olricu[m] zel de hanau clericu[m] dioces[is] Moguntinen[sis]. Anno [et]c. sexagesimoseptimo.
PML copy listed under Division A. $1 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-7⁸]: 56 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.7 x 12.6 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding:

18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco, over paper boards (19.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

De vita christiana

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notation in text.

Provenance:

Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription, 28 April 1795 (front endleaf 1 recto), purchased at Christie's sale for £14.14.2, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne: J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 247 for £31.0.0; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 158, 8/5/96 and price code: re/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902. .

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books