Augustinus De ciuitate dei : cum commento
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Type of record: Book
Title: Augustinus De ciuitate dei : cum commento
Other titles: De civitate Dei
Classmark: BC Incunabula/AUG
Creator(s): Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Additional creator(s): Trivet, Nicholas (1258?-1328) (Editor); Thomas Waleys (1287-1350?) (Editor); Amerbach, Johannes (1430-1513) (Printer); Atkinson, Richard (Former owner); Fauconberg, Thomas Belasyse Earl (1699-1774) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Trivet, Nicholas; Thomas; Amerbach, Johannes; Atkinson, Richard; Fauconberg, Thomas Belasyse; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: arte Ioannis Amerbacensis
Publication city: [Basel]
Date(s): Anno salutiferi virginalis partus octogesimonono supra millesimu[m] quaterq[ue] centesimu[m] Idibus februarijs. [13 February 1489]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [268] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/374067
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007897019705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Half-title.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on O4r reads: Hoc opus exactu[m] diuina arte Joannis Amerbacensis: lecor vbiq[ue] legas. Inuenis in textu glosis seu margine min[orum]: Quo merito gaudet vrbs Basilea dec[orum]. Anno salutiferi virginalis partus octogesimonono supra millesimu[m] quaterq[ue] centesimu[m] Idibus februarijs.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-o p-z A-K in alternate 8s and 6s L-O in alternate 6s and 8s (G4 and G6 misbound before G3 and G5 respectively).
Commentary by Thomas Wallensis and Nicholas Trivet.
From two to four columns to a page.
Woodcut on the verso of the title page (a1v) showing Augustine with the cities of God and Satan.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01243000.
Indexed in: Hain *2064; BMC III 751.
Features
Some annotations in early black ink manuscript.
Initials supplied in red and blue.
Paragraph markers and capital strokes supplied in red.
Water damage to the outer margins.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding of full dark brown calf over wooden boards, rebacked and much repaired. Both the upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of double fillets containing a design of diagonal triple fillets with stylised foliage. The replaced spine is of brown calf and has four raised bands. The words De Trinitate - Augustine are gold-tooled in the second panel. Gold-tooled in the bottom panel: Basilea 1489. Size: 330 x 233mm. Leaf size: 315 x 221mm.
Bound with one other item. Volume contents: 1. Augustine, Saint: De Trinitate, 1489. -- 2. Augustine, Saint: De civitatae Dei, 1489.
Provenance
Ink manuscript inscription on the back pastedown: anno salutiferi virginalis partus octogesimonono: supra millesimus: quaterque centisimus Idibus Februariis [eius?] Richardoz Atkinson.
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Belasyse, 4th Viscount Fauconberg, on the front pastedown with the motto: Bonne et belle assez. From the library of the family of Belasyse, lords Fauconberg. Written in ink manuscript on the bookplate is a library number: B. 13. 1.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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