Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The above described copy is also marked with a MS. note on the last page showing that it belonged on Haster Saturday, 1471 (Vigi. pasce lexi), to “Johannes Gossolt, Vicarius Aug.”—This note (dated 13 April, 1471), no less than the one in Dunn Gardner’s copy, proves the book anterior to Peter Schoeffer’s edition (finished 14 June, 1471) and therefore stamps Mentelin’s Valerius Maximus as the Hditio Princeps. The paper-mark is the bull’s head with rod and star. 18 AUGUSTINUS, Confessions, First Edition, Fol. la: Ex libro retractacionum sancti augustini episcopi | | C]On- fessiont mearti libri xiij. & de malis et de | bonis meis deti laudant iustii et bonum: atq3 | in ei excitant intel- lectti humant . . Zune 19: .. Hoc op? sic icipit | Liber Confessionum primus . . Jol. 1430, lzne 22: sic inuenietur: sic aperietur. ol. 144 a blank cut away Small folio, 143 printed leaves, 32 long lines to the page, printed in the samé type as the text of the Civitas Dei, and m lines similarly spaced; without catchwords, numeration, and signatures ; the initials painted in by hand ; the margins of the first leaf strengthened, nevertheless a fine copy in old French red morocco, from the library of the Duke of Sussex, and (before him) of the Duc de la Valhere S.n. (Strassburg, Mentelin, 1469-70) 24 0 0 So rare that no other copy can be traced. The irregularity of the line-endings shows that this is an early book, and the number of lines to the page being less than in the Valerius Maximus, forms a sufficient reason for thinking that this volume preceded that.--Bound up at the end is the following :— (De Laupisus Virernis.) Sol. 1, a blank cut away. Fol. 2a: Prefaco in laudé bindcé v’ginis | marie mfis ih’u nri redemptoris | ['I'] ametsi probatissimos . . Mol. 10a, line 10: ta gratiadz et corona ptegat te. Under this the shields of Peter Schoeffer impressed in red S. n. (Mentz, about 1470) There are 31 long lines to the page. 19 CONRAD VON HALBERSTADT. Jol. la: [C]Vilibet volen- | ti requirere con | cordacias in hoe | libro. vnti est p | mitus atteden- | dum. videlic3 q’ | cu in pmis con- | Sonne q di- | cunt concordan | cie sancti jacobi qdlib3 capitl’m i.vij. | pticulas distingtur . . Mol. 415a, second column, line 9: Explicitt cdcordacie | fris oradi d allemaia Thick folio, 415 leaves printed in triple columns; beautiful copy ma superb binding, gilt all over with geometrical patterns emerging in solid relief upon a ground of dotted or crusted gold, with silver clasps and bosses and a painted centrepiece bearing the Medict arms; the edges richly goffered, gilt, and painted (Strassburg, Mentelin, about 1470) 25 0 0 Printed in a type closely resembling (but serie larger than) that of the Augustinus de Arte Predicandi, produced by Mentelin in 1466. The capitals are unmistakably Mentelin’s. The paper-mark is a rose of eight petals. According to Klemm this book was printed about 1465.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31813288_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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