Bod-Inc: A-530
Augustinus Hipponensis
De civitate dei.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Mirifico poteris textos sermone libellos | Hosce opere precium perlegere hospes ades'; 12 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 11086.
a2r Augustinus: [Retractatio II,43.] ed. A. Mutzenbecher, CCSL 57 (1984), 124-5. See CPL 250.
a2r ‘Capitula libri primi.’
a4r [Waleys, Thomas: Commentary on De civitate dei I.1–X.29.] Incipit: ‘ “[G]loriosissimam ciuitatem dei etc.” In isto primo capitulo tangit beatus Augustinus duas culpas Romanorum . . .’
a4r Augustinus: De civitate dei. ed. B. Dombart and A. Kalb, CCSL 47-8 (1955). See CPL 313.
r8r Trevet, Nicolaus: [Commentary on De civitate dei X.29–XXII.30.] Incipit: ‘ “[P]redicas patrem” etc. In hoc capitulo xxix declarat Augustinus contra Porphyrianos . . .’
O4r Amerbach, Johannes: [Valedictory verse to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Hoc opus exactum diuina arte Joannis | Amerbacensis, lector vbique legas'; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC III 752.
O4v [Colophon.]
O4v Trevet, Nicolaus: ‘Tabula.’
Imprint
Imprint: Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 Feb. 1490. Folio.
Remarks: ISTC suggests that the day and month in the colophon are taken over from Amerbach's edition of 1489.
Collation
Collation: a10 b–o8 p–y A–K8.6 L–O6.8.
Remarks: Leaf a2 is signed a.
Illustrations: Woodcut on a1v: see Schramm XXI p. 27 and pl. 589, and Schreiber V, 3394.
References
ISTC: ia01244000
GW: GW 2888;
Hain: HC *2066; C 761;
Goff: Goff A‑1244;
BMC: BMC III 752;
Proctor: Pr 7585;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑863; CIBN A‑688; Fiumi 20; Oates 2775; Sack, Freiburg, 353-4; Schramm XXI p. 27 and pl. 589; Schreiber V, 3394; Sheppard 2432.
Copies
Copy number: A-530(1)
Bound with:
2. Augustinus, De trinitate. [Basel]: Johann Amerbach, 1490 (A‑563(2)).
Wanting a3.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf (c.1825); gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 337 × 237 × 49 mm.
Size of leaf: 328 × 217 mm.
Copious marginal annotations in a number of early hands, including many in the hand which wrote the Drabantius inscription (see below). Some underlining in black ink and pointing hands. On a2r a manuscript table giving the number of chapters in each book.
Provenance: Nicolaus Drabantius († in or before 1537); inscription on a1r: ‘hunc librum emi 3a post Agnetis 1537 ab executoribus piissimi viri Nicolai Drabantii predicatoris in Mulbron.' Sebastianus Aurelius (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r. Bartholomeus, Prior of Denckendorf (fl. 1562); inscription on a1r: ‘Ex libris Bartholomei prepositi Denckendorffensis . . . 62'. Purchased for £2. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 3.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 1.14.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 2.20(1).
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