Aurelij Augustini Prima Quinquagena

Description

Signatures: a-d⁸ e-m in alternate 8s and 6s n⁶ o¹⁰ A-F in alternate 8s and 6s G⁸ H-P in alternate 8s and 6s Q-R⁸ S-U⁶ aa-qq in alternate 8s and 6s rr-tt⁸ Aa-Bb in alternate 8s and 6s Cc-Ff⁸.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on tt8r reads: Post exactam diligentenque emendatione[m] (auctore deo) perfectu[s] est insigne atq[ue] per claru[m] hoc opus explanationis psalmor[um]: diui ac magni doctoris augustini. Opus reuera maiori commendatione se dignum [exhiberes?] legentibus: q[uia] q[ui]busuis verbis explicari possit: vt et ex p[rae]fatione et p[ro]logo ip[s]uis euide[n]ter colligi potest Qua[r]to vero studio [et] accuratio[n]e castigatu[m]: eme[n]datu[s] et ordinatu[s] sit: hi iudice[n]t q[ui] illud alijs similib[us] sibi: siue manu scriptis: siue ere impressis litteris co[n]tulerint. Co[n]summatum Basilee p[er] magistru[m] ioannem de Amerbach: Anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.xcvij.


Contents: Aurelii Augustini prima quinquagena, Aurelii Augustini secunda quinquagena, Aurelii Augustini tertia quinquagena, with Principaliu[m] sententiarum in explanation libri psalmoru[m] diui Augustini Annotatio


Printed in two columns with 63 lines to a full column.


Printed headlines giving the Psalms numbers.


No pagination or foliation.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01274000.


Indexed in: Hain *1975; BMC V 758.

Features

Wanting leaves a2-a7.


Repairs to some of the preliminary leaves.


Some water damage.


Repairs to the leather of the upper and lower covers.


Bindings


Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century full binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards, rebacked. Both the upper and lower boards are blind-tooled with a frame of triple fillets inside which are diagonal triple fillets containing lozenge-shaped ornaments of stylised foliage. There is evidence of two clasps with the remains of a metal catch on the upper board. Single leaves of vellum manuscript with initials, paragraph markers and marginal decoration in red and blue have been bound at the front and back. The replacement spine is of brown calf and has four raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Explanationes in totem Psalmi Davidis. Gold-tooled in the third panel is the name: S. Augustine. Gold-tooled in the bottom panel are the place and date: Basilea 1497. Written in early ink manuscript on the fore-edge: qui[n]quagena. Size: 312 x 231. Leaf size: 298 x 208mm.

Provenance

On the title leaf is a sixteenth-century inscription in black ink manuscript: m[agister] John Eccleston, plausibly the same man who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1514-1516.


Written in ink at the bottom of the leaf of vellum manuscript bound at the front of the book is a library number: B. 13. 2. This is written in the same hand as that on the armorial bookplate on the front pastedown of the Brotherton Collection's copy of De trinitate (Basel, 1489) which identifies the owners as the family of Belasyse, lords Fauconberg.


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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