Augustine Pseudo (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxviii, 590 pp. The Church's Bible. LCC: 2007010831.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A late 15th century trio of pseudepigraphic tracts printed circa 1470, attributed to Saint Augustine, Cyrillus, and Saint Jerome, all being the first Latin editions of these works. Around 1472-1474, an Italian translation was published by Bartolomeo da Cremona in Venice. The work is rubricated throughout, with large, ornate initials in red. The volume has been rebound in 19th century full calf, blind tooled to match the style of the 15th century. One finely bound volume in small quarto, 64 leaves This volume is in very good shape, with minor rubbing and wear to the binding, and some stress to the hinges. There is a small stain to the upper right corner, not affecting the text block. The first half of the text block has a very small wormhole to the gutter, also not affecting the text itself.

"Saint Augustin's Sermons to Hermits". A rare incunable published by Simon Bevilaqua in Venice: a popular collection of pseudo-Augustinian sermons, also known as "Sermones ad fratres in eremo". Its authenticity was already rejected by the Maurists in the 17th century; in fact, the collection was composed between the 12th and the 14th century; it was forged with an apparent intention of strengthening the Augustinian Hermits' historically dubious claims to have been established by Augustine himself; the Hermits would have taken precedence over the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine. Gotico-Antiqua typeface; the first page is decorated with a woodcut initial; the title and initial are coloured. The second folio (table of contents) is missing; ca. 10 pages contain pen marginalia and underlining, probably from the 16th century. A particularly well-preserved copy. /// Parchment binding with raised bands, blind embossing and gilt title (leather strings and metal parts only partially preserved); hardback, 111 folios, 12° (11 x 14 cm), parchment slightly worn, with a few tiny bookworm traces, top edge and front endpapers slightly darkened, endpapers have a few tiny bookworm traces and recent notes written with pencil, front endpaper has old call number written with pen, ca. 20 pages have small brown spots, small stain or tiny smudges, several leaves have tiny tear (one leaf fixed with small pieces of paper; text only slightly corrupted), spine slightly cracked (but binding still tight), condition: very good Book Language/s: Latin.

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.

8vo. Latin manuscript in brown and red ink on vellum, 67 ff. Italian rotunda, 22 lines. With 36 floriated initials in red and blue, large illuminated initial in gold and colours laid in to 1st leaf of text, and illuminated border decoration. Early 20th century Italian full brown morocco, elaborately stamped and coloured. The "Soliloquies of St Augustine", an inner dialogue on the matter of the soul. While throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance the text was generally attributed to St Augustine of Hippo and it commonly preceded the "Confessions" in early medieval copies, the authorship is now doubted. - At the end of the volume, fol. 65v and ff. 66f. have additional texts added in several different hands, beginning with the Hymn to St Michael "Christiane vir fidelis, qui regnare vis in coelis" (Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum III [1904], 24515) and the Hymn to St Christopher "martir Christoforo pro Salvatoris honore" (ibid., 29471), followed by other various prayers. - It may be possible to determine the original patron of the book: above the first rubric is an erasure that appears to begin "Iste liber" and include the name "Raimundi" (?); in the lower margin a shield of arms has been overpainted with gesso and gold, but traces of a blue ground survive, and from the back of the leaf a diagonal band (bend) can be discerned. - In the early 20th century the volume was acquired by and bound for the Italian engineer and industrialist Ernesto Pagnoni (1865-1928) of Vaprio d'Adda near Milan (see Fumagalli, Canonica d'Adda dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Zingonia, 1989). Pagnoni was active as a collector of manuscripts at least from 1908 onwards; his bookplate was designed by Sigmund Lipinsky in 1912. Many manuscripts owned by Pagnoni were bound by C. Glingler of Rome, who probably also fashioned the present, unsigned binding. Parts of his library were sold in Amsterdam by the renowned dealer R. W. P. de Vries on 2/3 December 1908. Other manuscripts once in Pagnoni's collection include the Lectura super libros sententiarum by Alfonso de Vargas y Toledo (now in Yale's, Beinecke Library, Marston MS 235), and an Ascetic miscellany, 1470-99 (now in the University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 717). - The present manuscript was later acquired by the famous English bookseller W. A. Foyle (1885-1963), who founded Foyles bookshop in 1903, and bears his Beeleigh Abbey bookplate. Although Foyle had collected books from an early age, it was at Beeleigh Abbey in Essex, which he had purchased in 1943, that he was able to house the books properly, forming one of the largest English private libraries of the 20th century. - 1) Raimondi (?), 15th century Italian nobleman (erased patronage to head of first page and his overpainted arms in the lower margin). 2) Bound in the early 20th century for Ernesto Pagnoni (1865-1928) of Milan, with his large impressed stamp on inside upper cover and his initials in shields forming a frame to both inside covers. 3) Sotheby's, 2 July 1951 ("comprising the property of the Countess Le Gualès de Mézaubran; . Thomas Thompson, Esq. of Middlesbrough; . S. H. Cole; . A. W. Flay"), lot 14 (£28), to 4) William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), British bookseller, with his burgundy morocco gilt bookplate to recto of first blank vellum leaf; a folded page of typewritten description of the manuscript in German tipped in. 5) By descent to his grandson William Richard Mervyn Christopher Foyle (1943-2022), aviator and bookseller. - Cf. Migne, PL 40, 863-898.

Sermones sancti Augustini ad heremitas is a 1517 Venetian printing attributed to Saint Augustine but more likely written in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries with the purpose of guiding Augustinian monastic communities. The work was issued on August 26, 1517 by Melchiorre Sessa and Pietro Ravani and reflects the ongoing authority of patristic writings in early sixteenth-century devotional life. Although modern bibliographic sources recognize the sermons as pseudo-Augustinian, the USTC continues to list Augustine as the author, underscoring the complicated transmission of medieval Latin theology. The text contains sermons directed to hermits, priests, and other clerics, including discourses on fasting, justice and mercy, obedience, humility, prayer, confession, love as the foundation of faith, the vanity of worldly attachments, and the way of life of Egyptian monks (De genere monachorum Aegyptiorum). Physical details include sextodecimo format (16mo), measuring 6 by 4.25 inches (15.2 x 10.8 cm), with 270 unnumbered pages and signatures A-R?, the final leaf blank. Notable features are a woodcut portrait of Augustine on leaf A2 and the printer's device on leaf R6. Condition is Good: the book is bound in soft covers with handwritten notes across both surfaces, the binding and text block remain tight and secure, the title page is lacking, but the remainder is complete, and the paper shows natural age while retaining legibility. Collation: unnumbered pages; signatures A-R? (R8 blank). Publisher: Venezia, per Melchiorre I Sessa & Pietro Ravani. Edition: 1517 printing. SKU: #29412. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. c.350mm x 260mm Single leaf on vellum. 31 lines in a Carolingian script with red initials. The lack of biting curves in facing letters with a curved stroke in lower register dates this leaf to before 1180. Script to one side only. Repairs, recovered from a binding. Generally good. The text appears to be from the Commentary 59 by Augustine futura ira: per quod non solum peccatores, sed etiam dilecti tui liberantur. Salvum fac dextera tua. Christo tuo, qui est salus nostra. The term "Pseudo-Jerome" refers to authors who have been misidentified as Saint Jerome or who have claimed authorship in a pseudepigraphic manner. In this context, the text was originally attributed to Jerome but is, in fact, by Augustine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. DECORATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN AND ITALIAN ON PARCHMENT AND PAPER, Central or Southern Italy (Lanciano?), c. 1450-1475. 135 x 90 mm. 109 folios preceded and followed by single flyleaves, watermark in Piccard, complete (collation, i-vii10 viii5 [of 10; five leaves canceled with no loss of text] ix-x12 xi10), chiefly written in five semitextualis or hybrida hands on 26-31 lines, two hands on long lines and three in two columns (justification, 95 x 65-70 mm.), red rubrics and underlining, 2- to 4-line red initials, 4- to 5-line initials in blue and red, three 7-line initials in blue and red (ff. B 1, 1v, 5). BINDING: Late fifteenth-century Italian blind-stamped brown leather over wooden boards, sewn on three cords with remnants of blue endbands, clasps removed, remnant of upper clasp on front fore-edge visible, parchment pastedowns, originally blank. TEXT: This small-format Franciscan miscellany is an example of a mendicant pocket-book, designed for easy portability. This one is still preserved in a very early, possibly contemporary binding. Its contents include an excerpt from Bartolomeus de Rinonico's De conformitate vitae beati Francisci, an indispensable source on the first 150 years of the history of the Franciscan Order that draws heavily on Franciscan writings of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to demonstrate the exact conformity of the life of Saint Francis (and, by implication, of the friars in the Order) to the life of Christ. The excerpt of Imitatio Christi found here is evidence of the dissemination of this important text into Italy and its readership by Franciscans. The Italian translation of a text on the Mass, known in only one other manuscript, and the text on the Divine Office at Septuagesima, perhaps unique to this manuscript, are of particular importance and the miscellany warrants further study for its unusual contents. PROVENANCE: Written in the third quarter of the fifteenth century in Central Italy, as suggested by the evidence of the script, watermarks, binding, and early provenance. Belonged to the Franciscan friary of Lanciano, in the province of Chieti in Southern Italy, the bequest of a brother Thomas of Lanciano, as indicated by a contemporary inscription on the rear flyleaf, verso. The presence of multiple hands in the manuscript suggests that it was the product of a scriptorium. Given this and the Italian aspect of all the hands, it is possible this book originated at the friary in Lanciano. CONDITION: Binding somewhat damaged by woodworm, text worn on ff. B 1v and 12, but otherwise in good condition. Full description and photographs available (TM 770).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT IN LATIN ON PARCHMENT, Northern Italy, c. 1440-1470. 203 x 153 mm. 70 folios, complete (collation, i-vii10), remnants of quire and leaf signatures, flourished vertical catchwords, written in a humanist minuscule on 30 long lines (justification, 147-149 x 95-100 mm), horizontal lines ruled very lightly in ink, single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, prickings remain in top and bottom margins on some leaves, rubrics and paragraph marks in pale red, two-line red or blue initials with contrasting pen flourishes in violet or red, two five-line blue initials, ff. 29v and 35, infilled and on square grounds of elaborate penwork; f. 64v, seven-line polished GOLD INITIAL with white vinestem decoration extending along twenty lines of text and into the upper margin, infilled and edged in deep red and blue with numerous tiny silver dots; f. 1, five-line polished GOLD HISTORIATED INITIAL of St. Jerome, bearded and dressed in red, standing before a Crucifix, with a hilly landscape in the background, on a white vinestem ground, extending into a FULL WHITE VINESTEM BORDER infilled and edged in deep red and blue with tiny silver dots and an erased coat of arms in lower margin, with modern? F.A. BINDING: Early, almost certainly contemporary, reddish-brown leather over wooden boards, flat spine with three slightly raised bands, head and tail bands, clasp and catch fastening, front to back, with brass catch lettered ave, front cover decorated, most likely in the nineteenth century, with an attractive painted border in green, orange, and gray, connecting four brass studs, and the title, De laudibus et miraculis divi Hieronymi, with initials F.C. at the bottom, back pastedown is leaf from a late fourteenth-century Italian copy of Donatuss Latin grammar, front pastedown shows offset script from removed pastedown from a fourteenth-century Italian text in Latin verse. TEXT: This manuscript is a vivid witness to the importance of St. Jerome in fifteenth-century Italy, and includes the foundational texts for his cult: three letters regarding his death, miracles, and titles to glory and veneration and purporting to be written by three contemporaries of St. Jerome (c. 347-420), namely St. Eusebius of Cremona (d. 423), St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430), and Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386), but probably written in Rome at the end of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century; a life of St. Jerome by an unknown author, probably writing in Italy in the twelth century; and Jeromes own life of St. Paul the Hermit, written in 374 or 375. These texts were widely disseminated in both Latin and in vernacular translations, and they influenced the work of numerous writers and visual artists. ILLUSTRATION: The iconographical choice in the historiated initial (f. 1) to depict the ascetic Jerome contemplating the Crucifixion dates from c. 1400 in Italy, and can be particularly associated with Hieronymite congregations in Tuscany. PROVENANCE: Copied in Northern Italy in the middle years of the fifteenth century, as suggested by the evidence of the script and decoration; the penwork initials in particular seem to point to Northern Italy. The manuscript almost certainly once included the coat of arms of its original owner in the lower margin of the illuminated border on f. 1. Three sets of initials are inscribed, in three different hands, all possibly initials of owners: within the roundel on f. 1 a modern owner inscribed an outline of a shield in pen and the initials F.A.; inside front cover, white embossed seal, with the initials L.F.; on front cover, as part of the added decoration, F[?]. C[?]. CONDITION: Slight loss of the leather at the back, top of the spine, and over the lower band of the binding; top of the painted border on f. 1 is very slightly trimmed; f. 1 is darkened; and there is some soiling throughout, but overall in very good condition. Full description and photos available (TM 656).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1487 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 278 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 278 Language: Latin.