Omnes libri beati August[in]i Aurelj de doctrina [Christ]iana tres preter quatru[m] tractat de modo pronu[n]ciandi sermones katholicos.

Accession number: 
PML 24151
Author: 
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Published: 
[Cracow] : [Printer of Turrecremata, Expositio (Kaspar Straube?)], [approximately 1475]
Description: 
172] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1926.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Printer of Turrecremata, Expositio (Kaspar Straube?) type 1:113G.
GW and BMC doubtfully identify the Printer of Turrecremata with Caspar Hochfeder: see BMC III (with notes in reprint assigning to Straube), and Geldner II p.361. Assigned in BMC II 319 to the press of Günther Zainer.
Collation: [1-16¹⁰ 17¹²]: 172 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
For contents, see Bod-inc.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 19.7 cm.
PML copy with moisture staining to gutter and bottom edge, more severe at end.

Binding: 
Contemporary blind-fileted calf over wooden boards (30 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Modern plain endbands. Two clasps (attached to front board); evidence of chain hasp previously attached to rear board. Contemporary manuscript title label (front board) identifying contents of volume.
Variant Title: 

Opuscula

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: A few contemporary notations and manicules in text. Final leaf ([17]/12) duplicated in contemporary manuscript (bul's head/snake watermark in paper).

Provenance: 
Unidentified name inscriptions (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified shelfmark: 2/III/S5. (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gottschalk, Dec. 1926.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books