Accession number
PML 5079
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title
De vita christiana.
Published
[Mainz] : [Peter Schoeffer], [about 1470-1475]
Description
[18] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Pseudo- Augustinus (GW). The work has been doubtfully attributed to Pelagius or Fastidius (Hillard 236).
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r: Incip[it] p[ro]logus beati Augustini de vita [christ]iana.
Explicit, leaf [2]/9v: Explicit liber beati augustini de vita [christ]iana. Hec faciendo quisq[ue] vita[m] obtinebit eterna[m]. [Printer's mark, in red]
Printed in Schoeffer's type 3:91G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰]: 18 leaves, leaf [2]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r: Incip[it] p[ro]logus beati Augustini de vita [christ]iana.
Explicit, leaf [2]/9v: Explicit liber beati augustini de vita [christ]iana. Hec faciendo quisq[ue] vita[m] obtinebit eterna[m]. [Printer's mark, in red]
Printed in Schoeffer's type 3:91G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰]: 18 leaves, leaf [2]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions:
Binding
Late 18th/early 19th-century dark blue morocco over paper boards (22 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in text and manicules with extremely extended pointing finger.
Provenance
Alexander A. Smets, signature, 14 May 1839 (leaf [1]/1r), his sale: Leavitt (New York), 25 May 1868, lot 85; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), entire library purchased in 1900 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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