St Augustine, De trinitate, Basel, Amerbach, 1489, later vellum

AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS

De trinitate. [Basel]: Johann Amerbach, 1489

Chancery folio (313 x 225mm.), 86 leaves, a–c⁸ d–l^8.6 m⁶, double column, 54 and 66 lines plus headline, gothic type, 3- to 6-line initials in red, red initial-strokes, paraphs and underlining, later vellum, quire a repaired in gutter, quires h and i misbound, new pastedowns

This is one of many works by St Augustine that Amerbach printed around this time, beginning with The City of God, and culminating in a magisterial edition of his complete works in 1506.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ia01343000

PROVENANCE:

David Augustus Cruse (of Leeds), University College Oxford, inscription on title-page dated 1886 (he became librarian of the Leeds Library in 1900)

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