Augustinus de virtute psalmorum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.

Contributor:

Pseudo-Augustinus.

Jehannot, Etienne, printer.

Roce, Denys, active 1490-1517, publisher.

Poitevin, Jean, 15th century, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible. Psalms--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Bible. Psalms.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- France -- Paris -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Lamborn, Robert H. (donor)

McNeill, William L. (autograph)

Saxer, Philippus (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered leaves ; 13 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Goff title: De virtute psalmorum

Fingerprint:

e*ra uret a.re gn*N (C) 1500 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : [Etienne Jehannot for] Denis Roce, [between 26 June 1500 and 29 May 1501]

Notes:

GW assigns authorship to Pseudo-Augustinus.

Printer's name and date of printing from ISTC, following BN cat. des incun. GW gives: Paris: Jean Poitevin für Denis Roce, um 1499/1500.

Chancery octavo. Leaf a2v: 31 lines; area of text: 99 x 66 mm. Printed initials and paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Rubrication not called for. On title leaf, woodcut device (94 x 69 mm.) of Denys Roce, depicting his arms on a shield, supported by two griffins, hanging from a rose tree with a dog lying at its foot and Roce's monogram "DR" in the background, the whole surrounded by the words ALAVENTVRE TOVT VIENT APONIT QVI PEVT ATENDRE DENIS ROCE (the S in Denis reversed). "[T]hird of Roce's four devices ... The coat of arms may be the legitimate arms of the printer, who had come to France from Scotland. The dogs in the device denote alertness and the scallop shell is the emblem of pilgrims to the shrine of St. James of Campostella [sic]. The rose tree is, of course, a pun on Roce's name."--M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 31.

Signatures: a⁸ b⁴.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is no. 4 in a volume of four Latin theological works printed in Paris at the turn of the 16th century (nos. 3 and 4 of which are incunables, Goff C-1020 and A-1352, respectively).

Leaf size: 120 x 90 mm.

Deposited with the Penn Libraries by Robert H. Lamborn.

Penn Libraries copy has dated ms. ownership inscription ("Philippi Saxer Studiosi Theologiae. Lucernae 1822.") in brown ink on front free endpaper; dated autograph ("Wm. L. McNeill 1872") on front free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment; 3 raised bands on spine; spine damaged.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves b1 and b4 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves dampstained; leaves of gathering a reinforced at inner margin; leaf a4 mended at head inner corner; leaf b2 torn and mended at inner margin; tail outer corner of leaf b3 torn off (with minor loss of text) and mended with a blank leaf; leaf b3 reinforced at tail margin with a blank leaf.

Cited in:

Goff A-1352

GW 3036

BN cat. des incun. A-770

ISTC ia01352000

OCLC:

794306108