Augustinus de Ciuitate dei cum commento.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Contributor:

Yarnall Library of Theology (Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.), owner.

Erb, Joannes, autographer.

Lantfondt, Conradus, autographer.

Thomas, Waleys, approximately 1287-1350?

Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328

Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.

Kloster Altenstadt (Wetterau, Germany). Library, former owner.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De civitate Dei

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Kingdom of God.

Apologetics--Early works to 1800.

Apologetics.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Bibliotheca Monasterii Altenstadiensis in Wetteravia (inscription)

Physical Description:

268 unnumbered leaves : illustrations (woodcut) ; 35 cm (folio)

Other Title:

De ciuitate Dei

Augustinus De civitate Dei cum commento

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Johann Amerbach], [13 Feb. 1490]

Notes:

A page-for-page reprint of Amerbach's 1489 edition. The day and month in the colophon are doubtless taken over from that edition. Cf. BM 15th cent. and ISTC.

Commentary by Thomas Walleys and Nicholas Trivet who are named in the incipit on leaf a3r.

Imprint from colophon (leaf O4r), which reads: Hoc opus exactu[m] diuina arte Ioannis Amerbacensis: lector vbiq[ue] legas. Inuenis in textu glosis seu margine mi[rum]: Quo merito gaudet vrbs Basilea dec[us]. Anno salutiferi virginalis partus nonagesimo supra millesimu[m] quaterq[ue] centesimu[m] Idibus februarijs.

Incipit of commentary on leaf a3r reads: Sacre pagine p[ro]fesso[rum] ordinis p[re]dicatorum Thome valois [et] Nicolai triueth in libros beati augustini de ciuitate dei Come[n]taria feliciter inchoant.

For printing variants, cf. GW and BN cat. des incun.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-o⁸ p-y⁸⁶̇ A-K⁸⁶̇ L-O⁶⁸̇.

Median folio, printed in double columns surrounded by commentary. Leaf a10v: 53 lines of text; 65 lines of commentary; headlines (book numbers) and printed marginalia; area of text: 245 (255) x 160 (173) mm.; col. width: 54 mm. (left) and 44 mm. (right). Initial spaces with guide-letters. One large woodcut ill. on t.p. verso depicting, at the top, Augustine writing at his desk, and, at the bottom, the cities of Zion and Babylon. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Includes index (leaves O4v-O8r).

Local Notes:

Yarnall Library Folio Inc A-1244 bound with: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. [De Trinitate] Augustinus De Trinitate. [Basel : Johann Amerbach, 1490] (Goff A-1345)

Yarnall Library Folio Inc A-1244: leaf size: 325 x 227 mm.

Yarnall Library of Theology (Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.) copy; on permanent deposit at the University of Pennsylvania Library. Probably acquired by the Yarnall Library of Theology from Voynich. With the bookplate of the Yarnall Library, St. Clement's Church on front pastedown. Three early ownership inscriptions on t.p. and t.p. verso: 1) "Joannes Erb Harsfeldensis(?) me possidet, 1541"; 2) "Bibliotheca Monasterij Abenstadiensis [i.e. Altenstadt?] in Wetteravia"; 3) "Conradi Lantfondt Mintzenbergensis [i.e. Münzenberg?] Liber". Another inscription at the top outer corner of t.p. has been cut off.

Yarnall Library Folio Inc A-1244 has early manuscript notes and fists in several early hands throughout. The woodcut on t.p. verso has been hand-colored and the colophon has been crossed out. Vellum finding tabs, some with fragments of early manuscript, at the beginning of each book. Wormholes throughout, especially in first half of book, with minor loss of text. Rubrication: Usually only the first few leaves of each book rubricated. Initials supplied in red, green or blue; paragraph marks in red or, occasionally, blue; capital strokes in red; a few chapter headings written in red.

Yarnall Library Folio Inc A-1244 bound in contemporary blind-tooled leather over wooden boards with vellum backed spine; 4 raised bands on spine; 2 leather-and-metal clasps (intact) with metal catchplates on front cover; author and title written on a paper label pasted to spine. Corners of top board damaged; numerous wormholes in both boards.

Cited in:

Goff A-1244

BM 15th cent., III, p. 752 (IB.37328)

GW 2888

BSB-Ink. A-863

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 3394

Schramm XXI, p. 27

BN cat. des incun. A-688

OCLC:

56858598