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AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). Sermones -- Sermones ad heremitas; Sermones de verbis Domini; Sermones de verbis apostoli; Sermones in epistolam Johannis; Quinquaginta. With additions by Sebastian Brant Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1494-95.
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). Sermones -- Sermones ad heremitas; Sermones de verbis Domini; Sermones de verbis apostoli; Sermones in epistolam Johannis; Quinquaginta. With additions by Sebastian Brant Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1494-95. Parts 1-5 (of 7), super-chancery 2° (309 x 217mm). Collation: a-f 6 . 8 g 6 h 1 0 i 8 k 1 0; 2a- 2k 8 . 6 2l 6 A 8; 3a- 3f 8 . 6 3g- 3h 8; 4a 8 4b 6 4c- 4d 8; 5a- 5f 8 . 6 5g 6 5h 8 (a1r general title, a1v woodcut, a2r verses by Brant, a2v-6v life of Augustine, Hymnus de fide christi, Regula , etc., b1 Sermones ad heremitas , 2a Sermones de verbis Domini , 3a Sermones de verbis apostoli , 4a Sermones in epistolam Johannis , 5a Quinquaginta . 304 leaves, with blank bifolium A1.8 not called for in BMC but present in the Doheny copy also. 52 lines and headline. Type: 1 b:180G, 5:106(88)G, 13:124G, 14:285G, 17:87R, 19:62, 24:75R, 87G. Full-page woodcut touched with red, 2-7-line initials, paragraph marks in red. (Inscription partially deleted from title, light dampstaining at foredge, repaired in first few leaves, last leaf torn and repaired with some loss of text.) CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH BINDING BY THE OCTAGONAL ROSE BINDER, blindstamped calf over wooden boards, sides with an intersecting frame of triple fillets around central diapered panel, stamps include Oldham ( English Blind-stamped Bindings ) 322, 323, 329 (rebacked, some loss of leather and small repairs to sides), remains of catches on lower board, title written along fore-edges. Provenance : Edward Grove (fl.1491-1506, inscription: Orate pro salute animae confratris nostri Edwardi Grove quondam socii contubernii Magd. , cf. Emden BRUO; occasional annoations); Thomas Walker (fl.1520, inscription: Thomae Waulkeri codex , chaplain Magdalen College, Oxford, cf. Foster iv, 1558). Parts one to five (of 7) of the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Augustine's sermons in a contemporary English binding with contemporary Oxford provenance. Only 11 examples of bindings by the Octagonal Rose binder, active from 1489-96, have been recorded (Oldham, op.cit and Shrewsbury School Library Bindings , p.56; G. Pollard, "The Names of some English Fifteenth-century Binders," The Library 5th ser., 25, 1970, pp.193-218); all of these are in institutional collections. The majority of surviving copies of this edition contain only several of the seven parts, many containing only one or two parts as opposed to the five offered here. This and the fact that each part is a self-contained unit, prefaced by an individual title, a table of contents, and succeeded by sententiae , indicates that the parts were available separately and combined according to preference and pocket of the purchaser. On the full-page woodcut, see W. Weisbach Die Basler Buchillustration des XV. Jahrhunderts 1896. H *2008; GW 2920; BMC III, 756 (IB. 37380); Schreiber 3395; IDL 530; Goff A-1308.