ID 813790
Lot 7 | Augustine's De civitate Dei
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
Bonetus Locatellus, 1486/7
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (354-430). De civitate Dei. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 9 February 1486/7.
The Aldenham copy of the first production from the press of Locatellus—Saint Augustine's magnum opus. Augustine, a native of North Africa, played a pivotal role in the development of theology in the Latin-speaking world. In the Middle Ages, “the writings of Augustine contained perhaps the most substantial body of philosophical ideas then available in Latin” (Kristeller). This, his greatest work, was written in the wake of the fall of Rome, contrasting the fallible and frangible world of empire with the enduring eternity of the city of God. Locatellus worked almost exclusively with Octavianus Scotus until the latter's death in 1498. Goff A-1238; H 2055*; IGI 974; BMC V 436; BSB-Ink A-860; GW 2882; ISTC ia01238000.
Super-chancery quarto (218 x 164mm). 208 leaves. (A few scattered wormholes and stains, dampstain at end.) 19th-century boards (joints starting). Provenance: a few early marginal annotations; old erased inscription on first leaf and partially deleted bookplate – Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham, 1848-1936 (bookplate, but likely originally from the collection of his father Henry Hucks Gibbs [1819-1907]; Aldenham Library sale, Sotheby's, 22 March 1937, lot 16).
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