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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Solioquia. - Aurelius AUGUSTINUS (Pseudo). Speculum peccatoris. [Augsburg: Günther Zainer, before 5 June 1473].
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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Solioquia. - Aurelius AUGUSTINUS (Pseudo). Speculum peccatoris. [Augsburg: Günther Zainer, before 5 June 1473].
2o (310 x 213 mm). Collation: [1-210 38] (1/1r text, 3/3v blank, 3/4-8 Speculum peccatoris). 28 leaves. 35 lines. Type: 2:118G. 3- to 4-line initials in red, capital strokes in red. 19th-century boards (some rubbing to spine and edges). Provenance: Munich Royal Library (bookplate, presented to) The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, August 1861 (bookplate and old stamps in margins of several leaves).
FIRST EDITION. Two of nine tracts which Zainer, first printer at Augsburg, printed in uniform format and which could be brought together in a single volume with a printed contents leaf, as the copy in Munich with rubrication dated 5 June 1473. Each tract is, however, bibliographically independent and more commonly found alone or in various combinations with others. Goff assigned each its own entry. BSB-Ink. A-902; Goff A-1333 and A-1337; Polain (B) 255bis, 4437; IDL 2290; CIBN H-118.
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FIRST EDITION. Two of nine tracts which Zainer, first printer at Augsburg, printed in uniform format and which could be brought together in a single volume with a printed contents leaf, as the copy in Munich with rubrication dated 5 June 1473. Each tract is, however, bibliographically independent and more commonly found alone or in various combinations with others. Goff assigned each its own entry. BSB-Ink. A-902; Goff A-1333 and A-1337; Polain (B) 255bis, 4437; IDL 2290; CIBN H-118.