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    • Author/Creator:Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
    • Uniform Title:[De civitate Dei. 1468]
    • Title:Aurelii Augustini De ciuitate 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.)
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: Leaf Collection no. 0010
      • Status:No information available 
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local 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.
      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.
    • Notes: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.
    • Variant and related titles:Aurelii Augustini De civitate Dei primi libri incipiunt rubrice
      Interea cum Roma Gothorum irruptione agentium sub rege Alarico at[que] impetu magne cladis euersa est
    • Format:Book
    • References: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
    • Subjects:Apologetics--Early works to 1800.
      Kingdom of God--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Incunabula in Yale Library.
      Italy. Rome. Sweynheim, Konrad and Arnoldus Pannartz. 1468.
      Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804--Bookplate.
      Lazaro de Archangelio--Inscription.
      Werther, Frederick, 1881---Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Fragments (object portions)
    • Also listed under:Pannartz, Arnold, -approximately 1478, printer.
      Sweynheim, Konrad, -1477, printer.
      Italy--Rome.