Accession number
PML 52089
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title
De arte praedicandi
Published
[Mainz] : Johann Fust [and Peter Schoeffer, not after Mar. 1467]
Description
[22] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Trust Fund of Lathrop C. Harper, 1961.
Notes
Fust is named as printer in the preface, and died in 1467. Printed in Fust and Schoeffer's types 3:91G and 5:118G.
Book IV of Augustine's De doctrina christiana.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2¹²]: 22 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Incipit rubric on leaf [1]/1r printed in red.
F.W. Householder in The Library ser.4 24 (1943-44) pp. 30-46 argues that this edition preceded Mentelin's (Goff A-1226) rather than the other way around (but cf. BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.5 cm.
Book IV of Augustine's De doctrina christiana.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2¹²]: 22 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Incipit rubric on leaf [1]/1r printed in red.
F.W. Householder in The Library ser.4 24 (1943-44) pp. 30-46 argues that this edition preceded Mentelin's (Goff A-1226) rather than the other way around (but cf. BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century hard-grained red morocco with gild tooling over stiff paper boards (29.1 x 21.5 cm) by Charles Lewis. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves. Gilt tooling on edges and turn-ins; gilt edges. 24 leaves of blank paper added after text to fill out binding.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, yellow capital strokes, and red paragraph marks.
Provenance
Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 202; William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst (1835-1909), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's (London), 3 Dec. 1908, lot 40; Joseph Baer (Frankfurt), cat. 585 (1910), lot 8; Gerhart Güttler (1889-1966), bull's head stamp (leaves [1]/1r and [2]/12r), [his sale, Berlin, 28 Nov. 1938?]; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sandbergs Bokhandel (Stockholm) on the Trust fund of Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1961.
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