farfel_n06_006_399

399
Charles W. Treylen
Sept. '93
3.75 L = $5.63

Augustinus, Aurelius. (born at Tagaste, 354 - d. Hippo 430)
Sermones.
Basel: Johann Amerbach I) [n.d. 76 leaves]; II) 1494 82 leaves; III) 1494. 58
IV) 1494. 30 V) 1494 56 VI) 1495 256 VII) 1495 44. f0 Chancery
With additiones by Sebastian Brant.
Ref: Goff A-1308. J. 2008 Pell 1518 Polain (B) 408 + 408a
Pr7605 BMC III 756 GW 2920. Schramm XXI p. 27.
Cop: HEHL (I-VII) Stan UL VI. rubricated in red.

602 leaves, 530, 531 + 602 blank. 2 col. 9a 521 1., headline +
marginalia. 227(236)x146(174)mm. Typis: 87 text + lines
4-10 of the general title. 62 marginalia. Capital
spaces, with guide letters. 2 large woodcuts (Part I + VI)
87 med. Gothic text type - in use 1491-5.
62 small " " " - in use from 1492. Single hyphen.

Amerbach - 1st signed book 13 Dec 1481. Continued
to print into the 16th C. d. 1513.

Part VI de tempore, signed + dated 1495.
Sermo XCVI Ouica quarta in. XL. Ser. I
Sancti Augustini de tempore.

1st collected ed. fo St. Augustine's Sermons. The editor was
Augustinus Dodo of Frisia (d. 1501), Augustinian canon
of St. Leonard, Basel, who made extensive travels
throughout Germany, under subvention from Amerbach,
in search of manuscripts of Sugustine's writings. On f. 2
of Part I is a set of commendatory versus by S. Brant.
On verso of 1st leaf Part I - full page woodcut of St Augustine preaching
On verso of 1st leaf Part VI - full page woodcut by Durer (See S.V.
Lerkey, Guternberg - Jahebuch 1969, p.212)