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Question the beauty of the earth : [Christmas card] / St. Augustine.

Accession number
PML 195120
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Published
Worcester, England : Stanbrook Abbey Press, [1957]
Credit line
Gift of Caroline F. Schimmel and Stuart B. Schimmel in honor of William M. Griswold, 2008.
Notes
Title from beginning of text.
Date from Butcher.
Printed in black, with "Greetings" printed in red on p. [1] of folder.
"Q" rubricated in gold with hand-painted red and green rooster at base of text.
"From St. Augustine, handset in Romulus Cancelleresca Bastarda, illuminated by M. & H. Adams & printed in England at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester."--Colophon (p. [4] of folder).
"The text is from a sermon by St Augustine of Hippo, translated by Dame Scholastica Hebgin."--Butcher, p. 167.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : col. ill. ; 208 x 142 mm. (mounted in folder, 237 x 180 mm.)
Provenance
From the collection of Stuart B. Schimmel.
Classification
Department