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Io. Frobenivs lectori S. D. En habes optime lector ... Aurelij Augustini, opus absolutissimum, De ciuitate Dei : magnis sudoribus eme[n]datum ... per uirum clarissimum & undequaq[ue] doctissimum Ioan. Lodouicu[m] Viuem ... & per eundem ... commentarijs ... illustratum ...

Accession number
PML 195565
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Published
Basileae : [Apvd Io. Frobenivm], M.D.XXII [1522]
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2011.
Notes
Preface by D. Erasmus.
The date in the colophon is misprinted 1512.
Woodcuts and metalcuts by Urs Graf, Ambrosius Holbein, and Hans Holbein the Younger, including ornamental borders and the Froben device. See Hollstein, German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, 14: 74-8, 14: 176 & 14A: 58 and Heitz, Basler Büchermarken 31 & 38.
Description
[22], 787, [1] p. : ill. ; 37 cm (folio)
Provenance
Bookplate, ownership inscription and annotations of Hector Pömer; bookplate of the Baptist Education Society; embossed stamp of Colgate University Library. Pömer's bookplate is by Wolfgang Resch after Hans Sebald Beham (Bartsch 163; Hollstein, German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, 3: 284).
Binding
Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf, probably in Nuremberg, remains of two clasps.
Classification
Department