Aurelij Augustini opuscula plurima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Contributor:

Flach, Martin, -1500, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Selections. 1491

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966 (bookplate)

Anderson, H. P. Quincy, Mrs. (inscription)

Bosecker, Martin (inscription)

Crelitznacher(?), Tobias Peter (autograph)

Dogel, H. (autograph)

During, Johannes (former owner) (inscription)

Hoehn, Georg (former owner) (inscription)

Rebhan, Al. Caspar (autograph)

G., W. M. (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, CCLXVII leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (last leaf blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Aurelii Augustini opuscula plurima

Opuscula plurima

Goff title: Opuscula

Fingerprint:

x.i- l.x. tau- inNr (3) 1491 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : Impensis et o[per]a Martini Flach Arge[n]tinae ..., Anno a natiuitate saluator[is] nostri Mccccxci die xi me[n]sis Augusti [11 Aug. 1491]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf Q7v, which reads: Aurelij Augustini Hippone[n]sis ep[iscop]i ac doctoris ecclesiae sanctissimi pariter & [per]spicacissimi: p[lur]imo[rum] opusculo[rum] nec non vitae ei[us] a Possidonio [con]scriptae: impensis et o[per]a Martini flach Arge[n]tinae accuratissime impresso[rum] Finis Anno a natiuitate saluator[is] nostri. M.cccc.xci. die. xi. me[n]sis Augusti.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf b2v: 49 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 196 (216) x 130 mm.; col. width: 61 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords.

Signatures: a⁶ b-c⁸ d-i⁶/⁸ k-z⁸/⁶ A-K⁸/⁶ L-Q⁶/⁸ (leaf Q8 blank).

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 281 x 202 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: some initials, capital strokes, underlines, paragraph marks, and annotations in red ink in text; a few initials in red and blue, red and yellow, red and green, or red, blue and yellow ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations, underlines, marks and manicules in brown ink in text; a few ms. underlines in blue ink in text; a few ms. annotations in ink (now green) in text; imprint supplied in ms. on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has two largely illegible early ms. inscriptions, one in Latin, the other in German, at head of blank leaf preceding title leaf; Latin ms. price inscription ("In catalogo Offenbachiano T. II. p. 48. app. libro huic constituitur pretium 50 [...].") at foot of blank leaf preceding title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate of Edward B. Krumbhaar and paper slip with bookseller's printed description of this copy with ms. note ("Mrs HP Quincy Anderson 5/14") in brown ink affixed to first blank leaf at beginning of volume.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. ownership inscription and contents note ("Iste liber est d[omi]ni Ioha[n]nis during pl[e]b[a]ni in Traut[ss]kirchen Et est in [effaced word, possibly ordine] seu nu[mer]o suo[roum] libro[rum] de mo[do?] arcus liij (Added in bracket: Et ad cui[us] ma[n]us [per]uenit vel ipso us[...] fuerit oret deum pro eo) Et [con]tinet opuscula p[lur]ima S. Augusti[ni] Iponen[sis] ep[iscop]i [pro]ut infra i[n] Tabula in p[ri]n[cipio] o[per]is") of Johannes During, pastor of Trautskirchen in Bavaria, Germany, on verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf; early ms. purchase and ownership inscription ("Per emptione[m] [per]uenit ad possessione[m] mea[m] Georgij hoehn") of Georg Hoehn on verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf; early dated ms. inscription ("Hunc librum Accepi a pio viro Martino Boseckero [...] dedi .374 partem historiarum de Martirio: A[nn]o 99 die Veneris post festum Burckhardj") recording the acquistion of this book from Martin Bosecker on the Friday after the feast of St. Burchard (14 October) in the year 99 (possibly 1599, making the date 15 October) on verso of blank leaf preceding title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has autographs of Tobias Petrus Crelitznacher(?), H. Dogel, and Al. Caspar Rebhan (struck through) on title leaf; ms. ownership inscription ("Ex libris W. M G") of an unidentified former owner on verso of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy bound in half leather over square-edge wooden boards; partially illegible ms. title ("[...]. s. augustini") on left board; remains of 2 leather and metal clasps on right board; 2 metal catchplates on right board; 4 raised bands on spine; ms. paper label ("Augustini Opera 1491") on spine; all edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf Q8 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves a1-a6 and Q1-Q7 mended at fore-edge; leaves o1-I8 dampstained in head margin; upper portion of leaves K1-Q7 dampstained; tail margin of leaves L3-M1 dampstained; pinpoint wormhole in upper portion of leaves k2-Q7; some leaves at end of volume lightly wormed with occasional minor damage to text.

Penn Libraries copy: spine mended.

Cited in:

Goff A-1221

BM 15th cent. I, p. 151 (IB.2157)

BN cat. des incun. A-672

BSB-Ink. A-899

ISTC ia01221000

OCLC:

27776069