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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (pseudo-). Sermones ad heremitas. [Strassburg: Johann Prüss, not after 1487].
4o in 8s (197 x 136 mm). Collation: A-M8 N-O6. 108 leaves. Gothic types 4:300 (title), 7:156 (headings and head-lines), 8:80 (text). 34 lines and headline, double column. 2- to 4-line initials supplied in red, capital strokes and line endings in red. (Title browned with fore-margin wormed and frayed, some marginal worming on first few leaves, a single wormhole penetrating text occasionally catching letters, some minor marginal dampstains.) 19th-century half sheep. Provenance: some early marginalia on upper margin A3 -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Some chapters of these famous sermons are of medical interest: de jejunio, de leprosis, and de superfluo potu. BMC I, 125 (IA.1705); BSB-Ink. A-921; GW 3002; Harvard/Walsh 194; HC *1997; Oates 221; Pr 741; Wellcome I, 534; Goff A-1314.
4o in 8s (197 x 136 mm). Collation: A-M8 N-O6. 108 leaves. Gothic types 4:300 (title), 7:156 (headings and head-lines), 8:80 (text). 34 lines and headline, double column. 2- to 4-line initials supplied in red, capital strokes and line endings in red. (Title browned with fore-margin wormed and frayed, some marginal worming on first few leaves, a single wormhole penetrating text occasionally catching letters, some minor marginal dampstains.) 19th-century half sheep. Provenance: some early marginalia on upper margin A3 -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
Some chapters of these famous sermons are of medical interest: de jejunio, de leprosis, and de superfluo potu. BMC I, 125 (IA.1705); BSB-Ink. A-921; GW 3002; Harvard/Walsh 194; HC *1997; Oates 221; Pr 741; Wellcome I, 534; Goff A-1314.