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52 - [INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint).
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[INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint). Opus Quinquaginta Homeliaru(m) divi Aurelij Augustini. [Followed by]: Sermones sancti Augustini de tempore. [And of]: Sermones sancti Augustini de Sanctis. [Basel: Johannes Amerbach, 1494-1495]. - 3 parts in one folio volume, 310 x 223 : (356 ff.) [sig. a-f8/6 g6 h8 A6 a-k8/6 l8 m-x8/6 y12 A8 B-K6 A8 B-C6 D8 a8 b6 c-d8 e6 f8]. Saddle leather on wooden boards, boards decorated with cold-stamped decoration, remains of brass clasps, spine ribbed (contemporary binding). Hain 2008. - Pellechet, I, 1518. - Goff A-1308. - BMC, III, p. 756 IB 37380. Rare incunabula edition of the last three parts of the first collective edition of Saint Augustine's Sermons. These are precisely parts 5, 6 and 7, comprising successively the Quinquaginta homiliae, a collection of fifty homilies by Saint Augustine, followed by his sermons "de tempore", and those on the Saints. These last two parts represent some three hundred sermons gleaned by Augustin Dodo, canon of St Leonard's in Basel, from medieval homilies. Printed in Gothic script on two 52-line columns by the German printer Johannes Amerbach (1441?-1513), who worked in Nuremberg with Anton Koberger and then in Basel, where he settled towards the end of 1477. Each part is preceded by a separate title and table of contents, and followed by an annotation of the main sentences. On the verso of the title of the part of the sermons entitled "De Tempore", there is a fine woodcut depicting an eagle holding a shield decorated with a heart pierced by two arrows (the arms of Saint Augustine), which is being revered by two monks. At the bottom: "Frater Augustinus Dodo de frisia canonicq reglaris". Part 5 appeared in 1494, while the last two were printed in 1495. A copy in a contemporary binding, entirely rubricated in red at the time. The lettering on folio a1 of the Sermones de tempore was painted, probably at a later date. The three parts present in this volume are absolutely complete with all their leaves, including the blank leaves. It contains several sixteenth-century annotations in Latin, as well as a few headlines. The binding includes several unbound medieval manuscripts, one of which is a two-page folio extract from an eleventh-century manuscript composed in France and containing: extracts in Latin from Isidore of Seville [Isidorus Hispalensis], Questiones [Isidore of Seville, Sententiae, Patrologia latina, 83, col. 256, Questio XXXV]; Extract from Macharius, Epistola domini Machari ad Monachos; Extract from Pierre Lombard, De septem ordinibus ecclesiasticis gradibus [Liber sententiae 4 dist. 24] (or version of De septem gradibus Christi (see A. Wilmart, "Les ordres du Christ", in Revue des Sciences religieuses 3 (1923), pp. 305-327). Incipit: "[...] & disperatio futuri stultitia sapientiae oblivio generatur...". [Isidore of Seville, Sententiae, Patrologia latina, 83, col. 638] (recto); explicit, "[...] discipulos tamen... accepisse legimus primo..." Binding very damaged, with many missing parts, soiling and a large number of wormholes. The clasps are missing, and only the brass brackets are partly present. Large halos on the first cover. The first quire is unbound. Wormholes and some light spotting not serious. Tears to the leaves of the first quire as well as to leaf h5 of the Quinquaginta homiliae, and to leaves x6 and y2 of the last part. The leaves q5 and q6 of the Sermones de tempore are stained. Provenance : Benedictine Abbey of Schuttern, commune of Friesenheim (Germany), with handwritten ex-libris dated 1538. - Eugène Stern, with ex-libris.

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52 - [INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint). See original version (French)

52 - [INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint).
See original version (French)