Additions by Severinus Chalcus. Caption title (leaf a1r): Diui Aurelij Augustini Hipponensis episcopi contra Academicos: vel de Academicis quem adhuc catachuminus edidit. Imprint from colophon (leaf r2v), which reads: Hic finiunt[ur] opuscula sancti Augustini hipponensis anno a natiuitate domini. M.cccc.lxxxxj. die vero. io. nouembris impressa fuerunt Ventijs per Pelegrinum de pasqualibus de Bononia. Signatures: []², a-q⁸, r⁴ (n2 unsigned). Printed in 2 columns. Capital spaces, some with guide letters. Incipit and foliation printed in red on leaf a1r. Numerous errors in foliation, leaf 130 misnumbered 131. Includes register. Speculum christiane perfectionis enumerated in the table of contents is not found in the book.
Contents
(from leaf []2r) De Academicis vel contra Acade. De Ordine. Soliloquiorum. De Immortalitate anime. De Grammattica. De Rhetorica. De Dialectica. De Moribus ecclesie catholice. De Anime quantitate. De Libero arbitrio. De Magistro. De Opere monachorum. De Bono perseuerantie. Speculu[m] [Christ]iane p[er]fectio[n]is. q[uod] dicit[ur] regula.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1222 BM 15th cent., V, p. 392 (IB.22281) GW 2869
Leaf r4, blank, lacking. Early manuscript notes and manicules; manuscript date at end of the book has been crossed out; some brackets and underlining in red. Inscription on title page defaced, illegible; another inscription on t.p. "Ad usum Fratris [?] Aesij"; circular bookstamp with initials B.A., unidentified, on t.p. and leaf a1r; no. 170 in the Anderson sale catalog of Charles J. Groves, Dec. 1917. Vellum binding including printed waste as spine reinforcement; inscriptions of author and title and illegible handwritten shelf marks on spine; repaired. Purchased in 1917.
