De doctrina christiana libri, IIII : omnibus sacram scripturam vel rectè intelligere, vel fructuose populo p[ro]ponere volentibus perqua[m] utiles & necessarij.

Accession number: 
PML 196542.1
Author: 
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Published: 
Parisiis : [Nicolas Barbou] Apud Ioannem Foucher, 1541.
Credit: 
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Sixteenth-Century Fund, 2016.
Description: 
[8], 160, [8] leaves ; 13 cm (8vo)
Notes: 

Library's copy ruled in red throughout.

Binding: 
Brown calf, tooled in gilt to a simple (often called "primitive") fanfare design with painted (oxidized silver?) strapwork and Madruzzo's arms in a central medallion; smooth back, all edges gilt. Binding possibly attributed to Claude de Picques (see Needham, Twelve Centuries, no. 81).
Provenance: 
Gian Federico Madruzzo, armorial binding, marginal annotations and inscriptions (front pastedown and colophon of De fide) dated June-August 1572.
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