Bod-Inc: A-519
Augustinus Hipponensis
De civitate dei.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] ‘Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi De civitate Dei primi libri incipiunt Rubrice.’ Incipit: ‘de adversariis nominis Christi...’ ... Capittulum xxx. Quanta erit. Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi De civitate Dei rubrice feliciter expliciunt.
[c1r] Augustinus: [Retractatio II,43.] ‘Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi in libros De civitate Dei argumentum operis totius ex libro retractationum.’ Incipit: ‘Interea cum Roma Gothorum irruptione...’ [c1r] Explicit: ‘... illius populi dicuntur filii Israel.’ ed. A. Mutzenbecher, CCSL 57 (1984), 124-5. See CPL 250.
[c1r] Augustinus: De civitate Dei. ‘Prefatio in libros De civitate Dei ad Marcellinum.’ Incipit: ‘[G]loriosissimam civitatem Dei sive in hoc temporum cursu ...’ [l8r] Explicit: ‘... omnipotenti Deo in excelsis in secula seculorum amen.’ The preface in this edition is entitled ‘Prefatio ad Marcellinum.’ ed. B. Dombart and A. Kalb, CCSL 47-8 (1955). See CPL 313.
[I8r] [Valedictory colophon, addressed to the reader]. Incipit: Aspicis, illustris lector, quicunque libellos | Si cupis artificum nomina nosse lege | Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona forsan | Mitiget ars musis inscia verba virum | Conradus Suueynheym Arnoldus Pannartzque magistri | Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. | Petrus cum fratre Francisco Maximus ambo | huic operi aptatam contribuere domum. M.CCCCLXX.'; 4 elegiac distichs.
Imprint
Imprint: Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1470. Folio. Fol.
Secundo folio: prodat historia. Capitulum decimumoctavum... . [c2r] Nonne Diomedes et Vlyxes ...
Collation
Collation: [a b8 c–e10 f–h8 i–l10 m–o8 p–s10 t v8 x–z10 A–C8 D E10 F12 G10 H8 I10].
Remarks: Collation as GW. BMC collates [* **8 a–c10 d–f8 g–i10 k–m8 n–q10 r s8 t–x10 y z A8 B C10 D12 E10 F8 G10].
Leaves: 294 ll.
References
ISTC: ia01232000
GW: GW 2876;
Hain: HC *2049;
Goff: Goff A‑1232;
BMC: BMC IV 10;
Proctor: Pr 3310;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑854; CIBN A‑678; Fiumi 10; Rhodes 193; Sheppard 2622.
LCN: 13886706
Copies
Copy number: A-519(1)
Wanting the blank leaf [a1].
Binding: Eighteenth-century calf; gold-tooled spine; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 403 × 290 × 83 mm.
Size of leaf: 390 × 268 mm.
Initials are supplied in red or blue, or in interlocked red and blue. Contemporary manuscript guide-letters in black ink.
Provenance: Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale (1830), lot 200. Purchased at the Renouard sale for £2. 6. 0: see Library Bills (1829-32), nos 190-1, and Books Purchased (1830), 2.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P inf. 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 1.11.
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