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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De trinitate. [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis Type 1 (Heinrich Eggestein), not after 1474].
Royal 2° (390x282mm). Collation: [1-410 512 6-910 108 116] (1/1r Sentencia...de libro retractionum, letter by Augustine to Aurelius, Bp. of Carthage, 1/1v chapter heading to book I, text, 6/1r chapter heading to book 9, text, 11/6 blank). 106 leaves. 47 lines, double column. Type: 1:120(118)G. 2- to 3-line initials, capital strokes, chapter headings and headlines in red, 7- to 9-line initial spaces opening each book left blank (except the first), MS. quiring in upper corner, MS. guide-letters. (Light dampstain at fore-edge of 8/9, small wormholes, affecting a few letters only in final quire.) Twentieth-century citron calf over pastepaper boards, one contemporary red pigskin index tab.
FIRST EDITION of Augustine's important systematic work on the Trinity. Kurt Ohly (Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1956, 1957) identified the books printed in this eponymous shop with Georg Reyser, but that identification probably extends to books printed in type 3 only. Type 1 may have been used in the shop of Eggestein, where it appears as a heading type in his Ludolphus de Saxonia (Goff L-337). HC *2034; GW 2925; BMC I, 78 (IC. 882); Goff A-1342; Pellechet 1540; BSB A-876
Royal 2° (390x282mm). Collation: [1-410 512 6-910 108 116] (1/1r Sentencia...de libro retractionum, letter by Augustine to Aurelius, Bp. of Carthage, 1/1v chapter heading to book I, text, 6/1r chapter heading to book 9, text, 11/6 blank). 106 leaves. 47 lines, double column. Type: 1:120(118)G. 2- to 3-line initials, capital strokes, chapter headings and headlines in red, 7- to 9-line initial spaces opening each book left blank (except the first), MS. quiring in upper corner, MS. guide-letters. (Light dampstain at fore-edge of 8/9, small wormholes, affecting a few letters only in final quire.) Twentieth-century citron calf over pastepaper boards, one contemporary red pigskin index tab.
FIRST EDITION of Augustine's important systematic work on the Trinity. Kurt Ohly (Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1956, 1957) identified the books printed in this eponymous shop with Georg Reyser, but that identification probably extends to books printed in type 3 only. Type 1 may have been used in the shop of Eggestein, where it appears as a heading type in his Ludolphus de Saxonia (Goff L-337). HC *2034; GW 2925; BMC I, 78 (IC. 882); Goff A-1342; Pellechet 1540; BSB A-876