Incipit liber Sancti Avgvstini de anima et spiritv.

Accession number: 
PML 127005
Author: 
Pseudo-Augustinus.
Published: 
[Lauingen] : [Printer of Augustinus "De consensu evangelistarum"], Anno ab incarnac[i]o[n]e d[omi]nica Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimos[e]c[un]do q[ui]nto Idus Noue[m]bris [9 November 1472].
Description: 
[76] leaves ; 21 cm. (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Fellows Endowment Fund and The Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Julia P. Wightman, Mrs. R. F. August, Mr. William Jovanovich, Mr. Arthur G. Altschul, Mr. John A. Morgan, Mr. Robert M. Pennoyer, and Mr. Jack Gumpert Wasserman, 1989.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
Colophon (leaf [10]/5r): Finitus est liber seu tractatus beati Augustini episcopi Yponensis de co[n]tric[i]one cordis cu[m] ceteris tractatulis eiusdem. Anno ab incarnac[i]o[n]e d[omi]nica Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimos[e]c[un]do q[ui]nto Idus Noue[m]bris.
Printed in type 1*:106R attributed to anonymous printer in Lauingen.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5-6⁶ 7-9⁸ 10⁶]: 76 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [10]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto (in half-sheets).
Blind bearer type on leaves [2]/2r, [2]/10r, [3]/6v, [6]/6r, [8]/3r, [9]/3v, and [10]/5r.
A selection of spurious works attributed to Saint Augustine.
"De vita christiana has been doubtfully attributed to Pelagius or Fastidius ..."--ISTC.
De ebrietate has also been attributed to Caesarius Arelatensis and De quatuor virtutibus caritatis to Quodvultdeus; cf. Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.
"On 18a [b10] is the blind impression of at least seven lines from 61b [h7]; on 46a [f6], that of nine lines from 37b [e3]"--BM 15th cent.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 15.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank), and with lower-third of leaf [2]/10, below explicit to De ebrietate, cut away.

Binding: 
Modern stiff parchment (21 x 16 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title: 

Incipit liber Sancti Augustini de anima et spiritu

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary numeric signatures. A few contemporary marginal notations in De vanitatibus seculi only.

Provenance: 
Previously part of an unidentified Sammelband: damage from a fore-edge tab (leaf [1]/2); Marcus Crahan, bookplate (front pastedown); George Abrams (1919-2001), booklabel (rear pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's London, 16 Nov. 1989, lot 16; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in 1989.
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