Prima[-Vndecima] pars librorum diui Aurelij Augustini quos edidit cathecuminus ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Contributor:

Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513.

Froben, Johann, 1460?-1527, printer.

Petri, Johannes, 1441-1511, printer.

Standardized Title:

Works. 1506

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Wooden boards (Binding) -- 16th century.

Clasps (Binding) -- 16th century.

Manuscript waste (Binding) -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Franziskanerkloster St. Andreas (former owner)

Franciscans (Halberstadt, Germany) (former owner) (inscription)

Newman, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) (autograph)

Wolf, Howard A. (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

11 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Prima[-Undecima] pars librorum divi Aurelii Augustini quos edidit cathecuminus

Fingerprint:

I.I. umit t*i- phru (C) 1506 (T) v.1

geb* uimo q,t, nedi (C) 1506 (T) v.2

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Johannes Amerbach]: [Johann Froben : [Johannes Petri], [1506]

Notes:

Edited by Johannes Amerbach. Cf. VD 16.

Imprint from Amerbach's postscript to the reader at end of v. 11, which concludes: Ex officina nostra Basileae: Anno a natali christiano millesimo quingentesimo sexto, uicesimasecunda die mensis Ianuarij. Ioannes tres, Amorbachius, Petri, & Froben, ciues basilienses expresserunt foelicter.

Text in double columns with occasional printed marginal corrections in red.

Woodcut illustrations.

Initial spaces, most with guide letters.

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: v. 1-2 (Prima pars and Secunda pars) only.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1-2 bound together in one volume with: Franciscus, de Mayronis. Francisci Maronis ordinis minorum scriptum primi Sententiaru[m] qui al[ia]s conflatus intitulatur. Imp[re]ssum Basilee : P[er] Nicolau[m] Kesler, Anno salutis Mcccclxxxix xviij k[alendas] Nouembris [15 Oct. 1489].

Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("W.H.H. Newman") of W.H.H. Newman of Buffalo, N.Y., at head of title leaf; early ms. ownership inscription ("FF. Mino[rum] de Obs[ervantia]: In Halberstadt.") of Franziskanerkloster St. Andreas in Halberstadt, Germany, at head of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has illustrated bookplate of Howard A. Wolf affixed to title leaf of second work in volume.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description (of this copy?) affixed to back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary full blind-tooled pig(?), much worn, over square-edge wooden boards; remains of ms. title on left board; 4 raised bands on spine; evidence of ms. title in black ink and shelf-mark in red ink on spine; ms. imprint date ("1489") of second work in volume on spine; paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("53") at foot of spine; 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates; partially illegible ms. fore-edge title ("AVGV [...]"); early parchment ms. bifolium from a missal (text ruled in lead(?) and written in a twelfth-century(?) protogothic bookhand in dark ink with initials and rubrics in red ink), with texts for Masses for the dead used as front pastedown; early parchment ms. bifolium (text frame-ruled in ink and written in a small and abbreviated Gothic cursive hand in dark ink with initials, underlines, capital strokes and rubrics in red ink) from a collection of sermons for saints' feasts (including St. Bartholomew, St. Lawrence and the Assumption of the Virgin) by an unidentified author used as back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy: wormholes in margins of several leaves at beginning and end of volume, some mended with Japanese tissue; wormholes in pastedowns; binding much worn.

Cited in:

VD 16 A 4147

Adams A-2156

OCLC:

249013318