De vita christiana.

Accession number:

PML 56083

Author:

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.

Published:

[Mainz] : [Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer], [about 1465-1466?]

Description:

[18] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper, 1966.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Prologue explicit, leaf [1]/1v: Incipit liber beati Augustini de vita [christ]iana.
Dated by CIBN. GW dates about 1460-65. Other ISTC imprint data: [about 1460-65].
For variants see CIBN A-772.
Authorship attributed to Pseudo- Augustinus (GW). The work has been doubtfully attributed to Pelagius or Fastidius (Hillard 236).
Printed in Fust and Schoeffer's type 3:91G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰]: 18 leaves, leaf [2]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
The printer's device reported by Goff in the Huntington Library copy has been painted in.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 14.5 cm. NPM

Binding:

20th-century gilt-tooled full blue morocco over paper boards (22 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Charlotte Ullman, 1966. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials with penwork decoration, red capital strokes and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early title inscription, in red: "D' vita xna ag[us]t" (leaf [1]/1r. Previously part of a Sammelband, paginated 317-52.

Provenance:

Stefan Mendl (1935-1955, estate: 1955-1965), sale, Sotheby's 1 March 1966, lot 11 (unbound); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper, 1966.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

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