AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430, Saint). De la Cita di Dio . [Venice?: Antonio di Bartolomeo Miscomini ca 1476-78]; [Florence?, not after 1483]. Chancery 2 o (288 x 189 mm). Collation : a 12 ; 2 a-z 1 0 A-G 1 0 H 12 . 320 leaves (of 324; without e9, s8-10). 47 lines, double column. Roman types 4:78. Initial spaces. A few capitals supplied in faint red ink. (a7 with lower corner renewed, H11 with upper- and fore-margins renewed touching a few letters, a few other small marginal repairs, lower corner of D9 torn away, small hole on q4 affecting a few letters, some occasional pale spotting and soiling.) 18th-century vellum over pasteboard. Provenance : Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. This book was assigned to Miscomini's Florentine press by Proctor, but BMC attributes it to his Venetian press because "(1) of the numerous watermarks several (scales in circle, large oxhead with shaft ending in cross and rosette, etc.) are characteristically Venetian but none characteristically Florentine; (2) the heavy a with head curled to left which is occasionally found elsewhere only in the Venetian Virgil of '1486.'" BMC provides further evidence for Venetian origin on the basis of several copies known in contemporary Venetian bindings. They note, however, "on the other hand, the frequent combination of the article with its substantive in one word is rather a Florentine characteristic." An inscription in the Bodleian copy provides evidence that the book cannot have been printed later that 1483. GW assigns the book to Florence, while BSB-Ink. to Venice. BMC VII, 1136 (IB.20457); BSB-Ink. A-865; CIBN A-691; GW 2892; HC *2071; Harvard/Walsh 1723; Oates 2339; Pr 6145; Goff A-1248.
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430, Saint). De la Cita di Dio . [Venice?: Antonio di Bartolomeo Miscomini ca 1476-78]; [Florence?, not after 1483]. Chancery 2 o (288 x 189 mm). Collation : a 12 ; 2 a-z 1 0 A-G 1 0 H 12 . 320 leaves (of 324; without e9, s8-10). 47 lines, double column. Roman types 4:78. Initial spaces. A few capitals supplied in faint red ink. (a7 with lower corner renewed, H11 with upper- and fore-margins renewed touching a few letters, a few other small marginal repairs, lower corner of D9 torn away, small hole on q4 affecting a few letters, some occasional pale spotting and soiling.) 18th-century vellum over pasteboard. Provenance : Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 August 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941. FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. This book was assigned to Miscomini's Florentine press by Proctor, but BMC attributes it to his Venetian press because "(1) of the numerous watermarks several (scales in circle, large oxhead with shaft ending in cross and rosette, etc.) are characteristically Venetian but none characteristically Florentine; (2) the heavy a with head curled to left which is occasionally found elsewhere only in the Venetian Virgil of '1486.'" BMC provides further evidence for Venetian origin on the basis of several copies known in contemporary Venetian bindings. They note, however, "on the other hand, the frequent combination of the article with its substantive in one word is rather a Florentine characteristic." An inscription in the Bodleian copy provides evidence that the book cannot have been printed later that 1483. GW assigns the book to Florence, while BSB-Ink. to Venice. BMC VII, 1136 (IB.20457); BSB-Ink. A-865; CIBN A-691; GW 2892; HC *2071; Harvard/Walsh 1723; Oates 2339; Pr 6145; Goff A-1248.
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