AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS. Sextus tomus operum divi Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi, continens τα πολεμικα, hoc est, decretationes adversus haereses, praecipue Iudaeorum, Manichaeorum, Priscillianistarum, Origenistarum, Arrianorum & Ioviniani. Venice: ad Signum Spei, 1551
One volume from a set of eleven containing the complete works of St Augustine, printed between 1550 and 1552, attributed to the Vatican Bindery. The other volumes are now dispersed; several entered the collection of Jean Fürstenberg and several were offered for sale by Martin Breslauer.
The same border and cornerpieces are found on other bindings for Pius V; see Legature romane barocche 1565-1700, plate 2, on a manuscript dated 1569-1574, and Legature papali, no. 114, plate LXXXIX, also with the corner bosses, on a book printed in Venice in 1574. The same border, cornerpieces and triple dot stamps were used on the box containing Capocaccia’s wax portrait of Pius V, dated to 1566-1568 (Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, New York, 11 October 2023, lot 72).
AUGUSTINUS, AURELIUS. Sextus tomus operum divi Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis episcopi, continens τα πολεμικα, hoc est, decretationes adversus haereses, praecipue Iudaeorum, Manichaeorum, Priscillianistarum, Origenistarum, Arrianorum & Ioviniani. Venice: ad Signum Spei, 1551
One volume from a set of eleven containing the complete works of St Augustine, printed between 1550 and 1552, attributed to the Vatican Bindery. The other volumes are now dispersed; several entered the collection of Jean Fürstenberg and several were offered for sale by Martin Breslauer.
The same border and cornerpieces are found on other bindings for Pius V; see Legature romane barocche 1565-1700, plate 2, on a manuscript dated 1569-1574, and Legature papali, no. 114, plate LXXXIX, also with the corner bosses, on a book printed in Venice in 1574. The same border, cornerpieces and triple dot stamps were used on the box containing Capocaccia’s wax portrait of Pius V, dated to 1566-1568 (Bibliotheca Brookeriana I, New York, 11 October 2023, lot 72).
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