Aurelii Augustini Opuscula plurima : quedam no[n] plus imp[re]ssa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Contributor:

Possidius, Saint, active 370-437.

Bertochus, Dionysius, active 15th century, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Selections. 1491

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Theology--Early works to 1800.

Theology.

Christian life--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered leaves, cccxxxviij leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves (leaf [10] and last leaf blank) ; 25 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Opuscula plurima

Goff title: Opuscula

Fingerprint:

j.a& i-s- usso ge&a (3) 1491 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Im]pe[n]sis & o[per]a Dionysij Bertochi de Bolonia Venetie ..., MCCCCXCI die XXVI Martii [26 March 1491]

Notes:

"Reprinted from Flach's (Strassburg) edition of 1489 ... with the addition of the De consensu euangelistarum, De quaestionibus Euangeliorum, Musica, Speculum peccatoris and LXXXIII quaestiones, making 40 tracts in all. The last distich of the concluding verses, giving Flach's name, &c., is omitted."--BM 15th cent.

Imprint from colophon on leaf S4v, which reads: ... Eiusdem videlic[et] aurelij Augustini Hipponensis ep[iscop]i ac doctoris ecclesie sanctissimi parit' & perspicacissimi: plurimorum opusculo[rum] necnon vite ei[us] a Possidonio [con]scripte: i[m]pe[n]sis & o[per]a Dionysij Bertochi de Bolonia Venetie accuratissime i[m]presso[rum]. finis Anno a natiuitate saluatoris nostris. M.CCCC.XCI. die. xxvj. Martij.

Median quarto, printed in double columns. Leaf b2v: 53 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 174 (183) x 125 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With foliation and signatures; without catchwords. First 4 lines of inner column on leaf b1r printed in red. Register on leaf S5. Woodcut publisher's device (95 x 65 mm.) on leaf S5v.

Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A⁸ B⁶ C-R⁸ S⁶.

Leaves a10 and S6 are blanks.

On leaf b1r, headline reads "Meditationes"; a variant has "Meditatioes". Cf. GW.

In colophon, a variant has "Bononia" for "Bolonia". Another variant reads: "... vite eius a Possidonio co[n]scripte: impensis & opera Dionysij Bertochi de Bolonia accuratissime impresso[rum]: finis:". Cf. GW.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 239 x 176 mm.

Rubrication: paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied by a reader in red on leaves a7v-a8r; remainder of text without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations, marginal marks and corrections to text in brown ink; initials supplied in brown ink on leaves u7v and u8r.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1924.

Penn Libraries copy bound in paper boards; ms. title and imprint date on spine; spine label with ms. shelf-mark; evidence of another label at foot of spine.

Penn Libraries copy: title leaf mended at outer margins; leaf a2 mended at tail and fore-edge margins with obscuration of signature mark; leaf n7v has minor damage to text of inner column; a few wormholes in pastedowns; wormhole in inner margin of leaves q1-q3.

Cited in:

Goff A-1219

BM 15th cent. V, 488 (IB.23589)

GW 2866

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2436-2437

ISTC ia01219000

OCLC:

27776069