Medtationes divi Augustini episcopi Hyppoensis Soliloquia eivsden Manuale eidsdem Castigaissime.
Brescia: Angelus Britannicus de Pallazolo Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliograìfico, 1498. ] Woodcut printer's device C on leaf o9 verso. For Britannicus's device C, see BM 15th cent., VII, 972 . Second edition variations in texts though. This is a large and clean copy. Goff A1294; HC(Add) 1951; IGI 1013; Sajó-Soltész 406; IBE 126; IBPort 35; Madsen
442; Schmitt II 2828,15; Hubay(Eichstätt) 110; Oates 2628; Pr 6998; BMC VII 980; BSB- Ink L-136; GW 2972 (Pseudo-Augustinus. Bound in later full vellum, a large copy with some deckle edges. Octavo, 14 ½x10 Cm. Signatures: π4, a-n8, o10 [colophon], l8, m12, p8.[o10,m12, p8are blank and present]. Item #866
Title and list of contents π1r; Title page,a1r
1)[Pseudo-] Augustinus [Pseudo- Anselmus; Jean de Fécamp]. Meditationes, caption "Invocatio dei omnipotentis ad morum et vite reparationem", The invocation of the Almighty God for the reparation of character and life.
2) a2r-e5r; [Pseudo-] Augustinus. Meditationes,
3) e5r-i3r; [Pseudo-] Augustinus. Soliloquia,
4) i3r-kkv [i.e. l1v], Manuale including preface, i3r-v; [Pseudo-Bernardus Claravallensis . [i.e. Hugo de Sancto Victore]. Meditationes de cognitione humanae conditionis,
5) l2r-m8v; [Pseudo-] Bernardus Claravallensis. Epistola de perfectione vitae,
6) n1r-n2r; Petrus Damiani. Sermo unicus [i.e Institutio monialis, chapt. 6],( De Institutione monialis, which had the aim of safeguarding Western Christians from the decadent uses of the East. Notable in this work, among other things, Damiani, then Bishop of Ostia, condemned Maria Argyre's use of a golden fork to eat. ‘Forks were a new invention at the time.)
7) n2v-n3r; Anselmus Cantuariensis. Meditatio de redemptione generis humani,
8) n3v-n7r; Anselmus Cantuariensis. Orationes ad sanctam Mariam virginem,
9) n7r-o7v; Father N. Laudensis [Maphae9us Vegius? Jacobus Arrigoni Laudensis?]. [Verse], incipit "Mens mea q[ui]d cogitas? Quid tantis / ceca procellis / Sponte tuam credis mox peritura ratem?", "My mind, what are you thinking? Why are you so blind / blind to the storm / Do you automatically believe that your rate will soon perish?"
10-18) o8r :8, elegiac distichs,; Pius II, Pont. Max. In laudem divi Augustini, o8r-v; Maphaeus Vegius. Epigramma in laudem Monicae, o8v-o9v; colophon, ov; printer's device, o9v; Vincentius Ferrerius. De vita spirituali [also known as De interiori homine formativus],
19) ²l1r-²m11v;
20) p1r-p7v. [Pseudo-] Bernardus Claravallensis. Sermo de passione domini,
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