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DescriptionAurelius Augustinus
Sermones [with additions by Sebastian Brant]. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1494-1495
7 parts in two volumes, Chancery folio (300 x 209mm.), part 1: Sermones ad heremitas, 76 leaves, a-f6.8 g6 h10 i8 k10; part 2: Sermones de verbis Domini, 82 leaves, a-k8.6 l6 A6; part 3: Sermones de verbis apostoli, 58 leaves, a-f8.6 g-h8; part 4, Sermones in epistolam Johannis, 30 leaves, a8 b6 c-d8; part 5, Opus quinquaginta Homeliarum, 56 leaves, a-f8.6 g6 h8; part 6, Sermones de tempore, 256 leaves, A6 a–k8.6 l m–x8.6 y12 A8 B–K6 A8 B C6 D8; part 7, Sermones de sanctis, 44 leaves, a8 b6 c d8 e6 f8, double column, 52 lines plus headline, gothic type, two large woodcut illustrations, eighteenth-century vellum, shelfmarks on covers "DD4 12" and "DD4 13", occasional light staining, two words on one woodcut rubbed away, first few leaves of first volume slightly browned
Volume one contains parts 1-5, and volume two parts 6-7. It is the first collected edition, compiled by Augustinus Dodo of Frisia, a canon in Basel, who was commissioned by Amerbach to search the libraries of Europe for texts.
LITERATURE:ISTC ia01308000
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