tia01282500

Text-inc Id:

tia01282500

Bod-inc Id:

A-580

Headings:

Augustinus Hipponensis Manuale.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] [Table of contents.]
2. [a2r] Augustinus [pseudo-: Preface to Manuale.] PL XL 951. In this version, part of the preface has become chapter 1, and what in other versions is called chapter 1 is here chapter 2.
3. [a2r] Augustinus [pseudo-]: ‘De salute siue aspiratione animae ad deum.’ [Also known as Speculum or Manuale.] PL XL 951-62. For the composition of Manuale see Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels, 195-6. Here the shorter version, chapters 1-24 only, with extra final phrase added ‘ . . . et in eum perseuerem usque in finem uitae meae.’
4. [b10r] ‘In laudem scriptoris epigramma.’ [Epigram on the printer.] ‘Gloria debetur Girardo maxima Lisae'; 3 elegiac distichs.

Imprint:

Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 1471. 4°.

Collation:

[a b¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia01282500 GW 2960; HC 2027; BMC VI 883; Pr 6455; CIBN A‑736; Oates 2449; Rhodes, Treviso, no. 1; Sheppard 5486. LCN: 13887818

Copies:

1. A-580(1) Copy Binding: Nineteenth-century faded gold-tooled red morocco; on both covers double fillets form a border with rosettes in the corners; gilt foliage and floral roll on the turn-ins; blue-black pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Thorpe's catalogue attributes the binding to Lewis [Charles Lewis (1786-1836)]. Size: 185 × 133 × 10 mm. Size of leaf: 180 × 124 mm. Provenance: Purchased for £2. 12. 6: see Thomas Thorpe (1791-1851), Catalogue (1833), part I no. 297, and Books Purchased (1833), 3, where it is described as an 8°. SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 4.31.