Augustine Pseudo Et Al (1 results)
Published by Venice, Pietro Quarengi, 6 March 1512. 1512
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Small 8vo, ff.[4], 143, [1 (blank)]; text in two columns, woodcut initials, imprint from colophon; small hole to first leaf touching a few letters, some damp staining to first quire, small worm track to lower margin of quire M, occasional foxing; overall good in 18th-century vellum over boards, title in gilt within gilt frame to… spine; some wear to fore-edge of lower board, a few light marks; a few near contemporary marginal marks and manicules, 'Domenico Carini' inscribed to front free endpaper.Uncommon edition of various devotional works, comprising: the pseudo-Augustinian Meditations, Soliloquies, and a treatise on the word of God; meditations on the human condition, and a letter on leading the perfect life, attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux; a short sermon assigned to Peter Damian; Anselm's Meditation on human redemption; poems by PiusII (in praise of Augustine) and Maffeo Vegio (in praise of Augustine's mother StMonica); a sermon by StBernard on the Passion of Christ; and Vincent Ferrer's Treatise on the spiritual life. EDIT16 CNCE 36212. Only one copy in the UK recorded on Library Hub, at the BL. Language: Latin.
