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186
Pagent book
NYC
June 1984 $7.00

Augustinus, Aurelius (St. Augustine) 354-430.
Explanatio psalmorum
Venice: Bernardinus Benalius from Bergame, 4 Aug. 1493, f0.
Ref: Goff A-1273 HC (add) 1973 BMC V 374 GW 2910
Cop: HEHL, UNCal XXXIIII
Paris BMaz, BN
372 leaves 16-372 numbered II-CCCLX with errors. 2 col.
20a: 70 lines of commentary enclosing the text + headlines
262(274)x158 (with marginalia 186) mm.
Types 175G - heavy title Type
150 Gb - heading type of common Venetian design
107 G - large text type
85 Ga - text type in use 1493-4.
75 G - commentary type
Capital spaces, with guide letters. Some catchwords.

The 1st dated book from the press of Bernardinus in
Bergomensis Supplementum Chronicarum, 23 Aug. 1483
He continued to work as late as 1524.

St. Augustine - Bishop of Hippo (modern Bone in Algeria)
+ one of the Doctors of the Church.
Psalm 30 (29) - Psalmus Cantici in Dedicatione Domus David
Exaltaba te Domine quoniam suscepist, me
hec delectasti inimicas meos super me
Domine Deus meus clamaui ad te et samesti me. -

Haebler- B. Benalius possessed almost 30 different fonts of type of
which 2/3 were gothic - among thus there is not one of any
originality.