tia01244000

Text-inc Id:

tia01244000

Bod-inc Id:

A-530

Headings:

Augustinus Hipponensis De civitate dei.

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Mirifico poteris textos sermone libellos | Hosce opere precium perlegere hospes ades'; 12 elegiac distichs. See Walther, Initia, 11086.
3. a2r Augustinus: [Retractatio II,43.] ed. A. Mutzenbecher, CCSL 57 (1984), 124-5. See CPL 250.
4. a2r ‘Capitula libri primi.’
5. a4r [Waleys, Thomas: Commentary on De civitate dei I.1–X.29.] Incipit: ‘  “[G]loriosissimam ciuitatem dei etc.” In isto primo capitulo tangit beatus Augustinus duas culpas Romanorum . . .’
6. a4r Augustinus: De civitate dei. ed. B. Dombart and A. Kalb, CCSL 47-8 (1955). See CPL 313.
7. r8r Trevet, Nicolaus: [Commentary on De civitate dei X.29–XXII.30.] Incipit: ‘  “[P]redicas patrem” etc. In hoc capitulo xxix declarat Augustinus contra Porphyrianos . . .’
8. O4r Amerbach, Johannes: [Valedictory verse to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Hoc opus exactum diuina arte Joannis | Amerbacensis, lector vbique legas'; 2 elegiac distichs. BMC III 752.
9. O4v [Colophon.]
10. O4v Trevet, Nicolaus: ‘Tabula.’

Imprint:

Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 Feb. 1490. Folio. ISTC suggests that the day and month in the colophon are taken over from Amerbach's edition of 1489.

Collation:

a¹⁰ b–o⁸ p–y A–K^8.6 L–O^6.8. Leaf a2 is signed a. Woodcut on a1v: see Schramm XXI p. 27 and pl. 589, and Schreiber V, 3394.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01244000 GW 2888; HC *2066; C 761; Goff A‑1244; BMC III 752; Pr 7585; BSB‑Ink A‑863; CIBN A‑688; Fiumi 20; Oates 2775; Sack, Freiburg, 353-4; Schramm XXI p. 27 and pl. 589; Schreiber V, 3394; Sheppard 2432.

Copies:

1. A-530(1) Copy Bound with:
   2. Augustinus, De trinitate. [Basel]: Johann Amerbach, 1490 (A‑563(2)). Wanting a3. Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf (c.1825); gold-tooled spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 337 × 237 × 49 mm. Size of leaf: 328 × 217 mm. Copious marginal annotations in a number of early hands, including many in the hand which wrote the Drabantius inscription (see below). Some underlining in black ink and pointing hands. On a2r a manuscript table giving the number of chapters in each book. Provenance: Nicolaus Drabantius († in or before 1537); inscription on a1r: ‘hunc librum emi 3^a post Agnetis 1537 ab executoribus piissimi viri Nicolai Drabantii predicatoris in Mulbron.' Sebastianus Aurelius (sixteenth century); inscription on a1r. Bartholomeus, Prior of Denckendorf (fl. 1562); inscription on a1r: ‘Ex libris Bartholomei prepositi Denckendorffensis . . . 62'. Purchased for £2. 4. 0; see Books Purchased (1825), 3. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. P 1.14. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 2.20(1).