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[INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint).
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[INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint).
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Lot no. 44
[INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint).
Aurelii Augustini opuscula plurima.
Argentina [Strasbourg]: Martin Flach, 20 March 1489. - In-folio, 285 x 201 : (6 ff.), CCLXVII ff., (1 blank f.). [sig. a6 b8 c-h8/6 i8 k-z8/6 A-K8/6 L-Q6/8]. Saddle leather on wooden boards, boards decorated with a framing of fillets and cold foliate scrolls, cold cross-braces in the centre, spine ribbed (contemporary binding).
Polain, I, 395. - Pellechet, 1460 - BMC, I, 149b. - Proctor, 681. - Hain *1948.
First Strasbourg edition of Saint Augustine's Opuscula plurima, printed by Martin Flach, who published a new edition in 1491.
This is a collection of various treatises by Saint Augustine. Several editions appeared under this title, but almost all differed. This edition includes the following texts: Meditationes, Soliloquia, Manuale de verbo Dei, Enchyridion, De triplici habitaculo, Scala paradisi, De duodecim abusionum gradibus, De beata vita, De assumptione virginis marie, De divination demonum (a treatise which addresses the question of pagan divinatory practices and their demonic origin), De honestate mulierum, De cura agenda pro mortuis, De vera et falsa penitentia, De cordis contritione, De contemptu mundi, De convenientia decem preceptorum, De congnitione vere vite, the 13 books of the Confessions, the 4 books of Christian Doctrine, De fide ad petrum, De vita et moribus clericorum, De vera reliogione, De spiritu et anima, De vita christiana, De diffinitonibus orthodoxe fidei, De disciplina christiana, Sermo de charitate, De decem chordis, De ebrietate, De vanitate seculi, De obedientia et humilitate, De agone christiano, De bono discipline, Regula de communi vita clericorum et Possidonius de vita santi Augustini.
The edition is printed in Gothic script in two columns of 50 lines. It was printed by Martin Flach (144-1500), a bourgeois from Strasbourg whose activity as a printer is attested in that city in 1487. He died on 26 October 1500.
A copy in contemporary binding, with a few old marginal notes in the margins.
Binding restored, headpieces redone, endpapers renewed. The indications on the spine are later, the clasps are missing. Soiling and wormholes on the boards. Holes and a few wormholes on the leaves, not serious. Some wetness, especially at the end. Angular tear to leaf CCLIX, without affecting the text.
Provenance: library of Franciscans of the Strict Observance, with handwritten bookplate on the title "Pro bibliotheca Rev[erendum] f[ra]t[rum] minor[um] de observantia".
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