Live auction - Lot 760
[Monasticism]
Regula beatissimi patris Aurelii Augustini [...] de communi vita clericorum. Cum expositione D. Ugonis de Sancto Victore. Adiecta utrique vulgari interpretatione.
Venice, B. Fasani, April 1561
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [80] ff. (ext. marginal staining or spotting).
18th-c. gilt mottled leather, double gilt ruled border on covers, gilt spine with 4 raised bands, a.e.g., marbled endpapers (rubbed, def. at head and tail). Good copy.
Rare Latin ed. with Italian translation of Augustine’s rules of monastic life, together with the medieval commentary by Hugo of St. Victor (1096-1141). Title woodcut.
Ref. Edit16 3420. - STC Italian (BL), p. 62. - Not in Adams.
Prov. Fl. Prims, Antwerp archivist (1882-1954). - W. Lourdaux, Leuven professor of medieval history (1923-1988).