Accession number
PML 198938
Creator
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Published
Parisiis : Apud Christianum Wechel in vico Iacobeo sub scuto Basiliensi, 1529.
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2022.
Notes
Title and imprint from title-page.
Imprint from Annotatio: Venit Parisijs apud Christianum Wechel, via ad divum Iacobum, sub scuto Basiliensi. 1529.
Wechel's printer's mark on title page and last page.
Signed at colophon to publisher Antoine Bonnemère: ... Opera et industria Antonij Bonemere fidelissimi ibidem calcographie ...
Title in red and black with border by Geoffroy Tory, cut by Jacquemin Woeiriot (signed with the cross of Lorraine); part title-page border to Annotatio designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (originally for Johann Froben at Basel), cut by unknown artist for Wechel or Bonnemère by 1529 (see Kostbare illustrierte Bücher des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts in der Stadtbibliothek Trier (1995), no. 67.
Signatures: a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ aa-ss⁸ tt¹⁰; A-G⁸. Leaf tt10 blank.
Another edition of the same year printed by Francois Regnault and published by Bonnemère.
Imprint from Annotatio: Venit Parisijs apud Christianum Wechel, via ad divum Iacobum, sub scuto Basiliensi. 1529.
Wechel's printer's mark on title page and last page.
Signed at colophon to publisher Antoine Bonnemère: ... Opera et industria Antonij Bonemere fidelissimi ibidem calcographie ...
Title in red and black with border by Geoffroy Tory, cut by Jacquemin Woeiriot (signed with the cross of Lorraine); part title-page border to Annotatio designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (originally for Johann Froben at Basel), cut by unknown artist for Wechel or Bonnemère by 1529 (see Kostbare illustrierte Bücher des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts in der Stadtbibliothek Trier (1995), no. 67.
Signatures: a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ aa-ss⁸ tt¹⁰; A-G⁸. Leaf tt10 blank.
Another edition of the same year printed by Francois Regnault and published by Bonnemère.
Description
ccclxi [1, 56] leaves ; 29 cm (fol)
Inscriptions/Markings
Annotations: occasional early marginal annotations (cropped) and underlining.
Provenance
Mailhoc or Mallnoch family of Albi, France: "Aurel de Carrier ... de Mailhoc" (title page), "De la Roqua filh de Bernad de Mallnoch [sic] de Albiges" (leaf cccxl verso), and "De la Roqua" (leaf G8r); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Bernard Quaritch on the Lathrop C. Harper D-1 Fund, Sept. 2022.
Binding
17th-century (French?) sheep over paper boards; renewed pastedowns and endleaves.
Classification
Catalog link
Department