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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430, Saint). Confessiones. With seven other works, 15 pseudo-Augustinian tractates, and four short texts by three different authors. Venice: Andreas de Bonetis, 23rd July 1484.
Super-chancery 4o (312 x 216 mm). Collation: a-z & \\j \\g A-F8 G4 H-K8 L4 (-a1 blank, a2r Meditationes [Maurist version] spurious, c5v Soliloquia spurious, incipit: Cognoscam, e5v Manuale [Maurist version, with anonymous continuation] spurious, f5r Enchiridion de fide, spe et caritate genuine, i4r De triplici habitaculo spurious, i6v Scala paradisi spurious, k1v De duodecim abusionum gradibus spurious, k6v De vita beata genuine, l5r De assumptione beatae virginis spurious, l7v De divinatione demonum genuine, m2v De fuga mulierum spurious, m3v De cura pro mortuis gerenda genuine, n2r De vera et falsa poenitentia spurious, o1v De contritione cordis spurious, o4v De contemptu mundi spurious, o6v De convenientia decem praeceptorum spurious, o7v De cognitione verae vitae spurious [by Honorius Augustodunensis], p4r Confessiones genuine, &3v De doctrina christiana genuine, B8v De fide ad Petrum diaconum spurious (by St Fulgentius), D3v Sermones de vita clericorum genuine, D7r De vera religione genuine, G2v table to the preceding works, G4v Eusebius Conradus, De errore scribentium Augustinum fuisse heremitam, H3r Possidius, De vita et moribus Sancti Augustini, I6r Conradus, Annotatio brevissima in errorem, K1r Sequentia in solennitate sancti Augustini anonymous verse, K1r De anima et spiritu spurious, L3v quire register, L4r colophon, verso blank). 287 leaves (without the blank). Gothic types 3:74 (text), 4:150 (headings). 42 lines and headline, double column. Initial-spaces. (Slight worming in the first few leaves affecting letters, ink stain on outer margins of quires o-z.)
BINDING, probably from Piedmont: contemporary blind-tooled leather over bevelled wooden boards, panelled sides with double fillets, cable tool forming outer border, the inner border and center panel decorated with two floral tools and two types of Greek cross, five brass bosses on each cover, two pairs of clasps, thick headbands, 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript endleaves, (rebacked, worn, thongs replaced). Quarter-morocco box. Provenance: 1489 ownership inscription (name erased) -- Sanctuary of Crea (or Creta, in the duchy of Monferrato), regular canons of the Lateran, monastery of St Mary, given by Jeronymus de Sto Germano, asking readers to pray for him (inscriptions) -- Antoninos Ravallis, stating that he was born on 17th January 1459 (pseudo-Greek inscription) -- [Parke-Bernet Galleries, 20 February 1950, lot 12 -- Swann Galleries, 7th May 1953, lot 127 -- Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25th May 1983] -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983.
Many of these Augustinian texts had previously appeared in print at Cracow, but this collection was taken over from Octavianus Scotus' 1483 Venetian edition, supplemented by one spurious text, De anima et spiritu, and three texts on St Augustine's life. Some copies have the printer's device below the colophon. Sacro Monte di Crea in the diocese of Vercelli (now Casale) is a sanctuary preserving a miraculous image of the Virgin. At first it was dependent on the monks of Vezzolano, then from 1483 to 1802 the Lateran Canons looked after it. It is not impossible that the Augustine was bound there. HC *1947; GW 2864; BMC V, 361; IGI 1015; Goff A-1217.
Super-chancery 4o (312 x 216 mm). Collation: a-z & \\j \\g A-F8 G4 H-K8 L4 (-a1 blank, a2r Meditationes [Maurist version] spurious, c5v Soliloquia spurious, incipit: Cognoscam, e5v Manuale [Maurist version, with anonymous continuation] spurious, f5r Enchiridion de fide, spe et caritate genuine, i4r De triplici habitaculo spurious, i6v Scala paradisi spurious, k1v De duodecim abusionum gradibus spurious, k6v De vita beata genuine, l5r De assumptione beatae virginis spurious, l7v De divinatione demonum genuine, m2v De fuga mulierum spurious, m3v De cura pro mortuis gerenda genuine, n2r De vera et falsa poenitentia spurious, o1v De contritione cordis spurious, o4v De contemptu mundi spurious, o6v De convenientia decem praeceptorum spurious, o7v De cognitione verae vitae spurious [by Honorius Augustodunensis], p4r Confessiones genuine, &3v De doctrina christiana genuine, B8v De fide ad Petrum diaconum spurious (by St Fulgentius), D3v Sermones de vita clericorum genuine, D7r De vera religione genuine, G2v table to the preceding works, G4v Eusebius Conradus, De errore scribentium Augustinum fuisse heremitam, H3r Possidius, De vita et moribus Sancti Augustini, I6r Conradus, Annotatio brevissima in errorem, K1r Sequentia in solennitate sancti Augustini anonymous verse, K1r De anima et spiritu spurious, L3v quire register, L4r colophon, verso blank). 287 leaves (without the blank). Gothic types 3:74 (text), 4:150 (headings). 42 lines and headline, double column. Initial-spaces. (Slight worming in the first few leaves affecting letters, ink stain on outer margins of quires o-z.)
BINDING, probably from Piedmont: contemporary blind-tooled leather over bevelled wooden boards, panelled sides with double fillets, cable tool forming outer border, the inner border and center panel decorated with two floral tools and two types of Greek cross, five brass bosses on each cover, two pairs of clasps, thick headbands, 14th-century Italian illuminated manuscript endleaves, (rebacked, worn, thongs replaced). Quarter-morocco box. Provenance: 1489 ownership inscription (name erased) -- Sanctuary of Crea (or Creta, in the duchy of Monferrato), regular canons of the Lateran, monastery of St Mary, given by Jeronymus de Sto Germano, asking readers to pray for him (inscriptions) -- Antoninos Ravallis, stating that he was born on 17th January 1459 (pseudo-Greek inscription) -- [Parke-Bernet Galleries, 20 February 1950, lot 12 -- Swann Galleries, 7th May 1953, lot 127 -- Sotheby Parke Bernet, 25th May 1983] -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983.
Many of these Augustinian texts had previously appeared in print at Cracow, but this collection was taken over from Octavianus Scotus' 1483 Venetian edition, supplemented by one spurious text, De anima et spiritu, and three texts on St Augustine's life. Some copies have the printer's device below the colophon. Sacro Monte di Crea in the diocese of Vercelli (now Casale) is a sanctuary preserving a miraculous image of the Virgin. At first it was dependent on the monks of Vezzolano, then from 1483 to 1802 the Lateran Canons looked after it. It is not impossible that the Augustine was bound there. HC *1947; GW 2864; BMC V, 361; IGI 1015; Goff A-1217.