Accession number
PML 196542.1
Creator
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Published
Parisiis : [Nicolas Barbou] Apud Ioannem Foucher, 1541.
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Sixteenth-Century Fund,
Description
[8], 160, [8] leaves ; 13 cm (8vo)
Notes
Library's copy ruled in red throughout.
Binding
Brown calf, tooled in gilt to a simple (often called "primitive") fanfare design with painted (oxidized silver?) strapwork and Madruzzo's arms in a central medallion; smooth back, all edges gilt. Binding possibly attributed to Claude de Picques (see Needh
Provenance
Gian Federico Madruzzo, armorial binding, marginal annotations and inscriptions (front pastedown and colophon of De fide) dated June-August 1572.
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