Augustinus De civitate Dei cum commento
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Augustinus De civitate 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); Scotto, Ottaviano (1498) (Publisher); Locatelli, Boneto (1486-1523) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Trivet, Nicholas; Thomas; Scotto, Ottaviano; Locatelli, Boneto; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Iussu impensisq[ue] Nobilis viri Octauiani Scoti ciuis modoetiensis; [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus
Publication city: Impressus Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno salutiferi virginalis part[us] octogesimonono supra milesimum [et] quatercentesimum: duodecimo Klendas Martias. [18 February 1489/1490]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [264] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39360
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007729689705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-R⁸ S⁶ t-z⁸ [et⁸] [con⁸] [rum⁸] AA-EE⁸ FF-HH⁶.
Colophon on HH1v reads: Aurelij Augustini de civitate dei liber explicit: impressus Uenetijs issu impensisque Nobilis viri Otauiani scoti ciuis modoetiensis: Anno salutiferi virginalis part[us] octogesimonono supra milesimum [et] quatercentesimum: duodecimo Klendas [sic] Martias.
Edited by Nicholas Triveth and Thomas Wallensis.
Printed with two columns to a page with 64 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Printer's mark on HH5r with monogram O S M.
On the verso of the title page is a woodcut of a seated St. Augustine in cope and mitre. Below him in a separate panel are two towers with winding stream between, and the heading: Insultat baylon syon vrbs vt sancta resultet.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01245000.
Indexed in: Hain-Cop. 2065: Cop. 760: Pellechet 1560; Proctor 5018 (3 Venice 85-1.2.4); BMC V 437.
Features
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the foot ot the title page: Venitiis Anno 1489, Inventæ Tipographiæ 58.
Copious marginal annotations and underlinings, seventeenth-century and earlier in different hands, in ink manuscript throughout, mostly cropped.
Woodcut of St. Augustine has sustained damage and is spotted with ink. Various small holes have been mended.
Some worm damage.
Some water damage and staining.
Bindings
Binding of full vellum over pasteboard, probably eighteenth-century. On the smooth spine can be seen the imprint of a previous title label stamped De Civitate Dei over which has been stamped in black, at a later date the words: S. Augustus de Civitate dei. Beneath is stamped, also in black: Brotherton Collection. Venetüs 1489. The tail of the spine is damaged and reveals the sewing onto the endband. The leaf edges have been decorated with mottling in blue and red. Size: 300 x 220mm. Leaf size: 296 x 211mm.
Provenance
Coloured 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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