Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Title:
Aurelii Augustini De ciuitate Dei primi libri incipiunt rubrice.
Alternate Title(s):
Aurelii Augustini De civitate Dei primi libri incipiunt rubrice
Published / Created:
[Rome] : Hoc Conradus opus Suueynheym ordine miro Arnoldus[que] simul Pannarts una ede colendi gente Theotonica, Rome expediere sodales. In domo Petri de Maximo, MCCCCLXVIII [1468]
Physical Description:
[273] leaves ; 42 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0010
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN ZZi 3293: Inscription of Lazaro de Archangelio. Bookplate of Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh. Bound to 40 cm. For fuller description see collation-slip in volume. Fol. 1, 16, 273 and 274 (all blank) wanting.

46 lines to a page; type: 115 R.

Beginning of main text on [c1r] (leaf [17r]): "Interea cum roma gothorum irruptione agentium sub rege Alarico at[que] impetu magne cladis euersa est".

Blank spaces for initial capitals.

Imprint details from verse colophon on [E6v] (leaf [272v]): "Hoc Conradus opus Suueynheym ordine miro Arnoldus[que] simul Pannarts una ede colendi gente Theotonica: Rome expediere sodales. In domo Petri de Maximo. MCCCCLXVIII".

Signatures: [a⁸(-a1) b⁸ c-o¹⁰ p¹² q-z¹⁰ A-C¹⁰ D-E⁸].

Title from incipit at head of [a2r] (leaf [2r]): "Aurelii Augustini De ciuitate Dei primi libri incipiunt rubrice".

With table of contents: [a2r] (leaf [2r]) - [b7v] (leaf [15v]).

Without foliation, register or catchwords.

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, IV, p. 5 (IC. 17107)

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-518

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 2875

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A1231

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ia01231000

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0010: Imperfect: comprises eight non-consecutive leaves. Ornamental initials include white vine work painted in blue, red, and gold. With interlinear annotations. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Apologetics -- Early works to 1800. | Kingdom of God -- Early works to 1800. | Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751–1804 -- Bookplate. | Lazaro de Archangelio -- Inscription. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
Form/Genre:
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478, printer. | Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477, printer.