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(Strassburg: Printer of the "Casus breves Decretalium", possibly Georg Husner, ca. 1493-94). 4to. 107 (of 108) leaves; lacking A1 (two-line title-page). Printed in 34 lines in two columns in Gothic type. Initial spaces largely left blank, some with contemporary manuscript letters. Three-quarter 19th century brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco spine label, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards and extremities rubbed, upper front joint split, spine label chipped; edges stained red; front hinge cracked; armorial book-plate on front paste-down, Blumhaven Library label on same; book-plate of T. Falkner, The Vicarage, on front free endpaper; old catalogue descriptions mounted on front endpapers; A2 soiled; fore-edge of final eight leaves repaired; final leaf mounted onto heavier leaf, wear in top corner of same affecting some letters; scattered soiling to text; scattered contemporary marginalia; illustrated book-plate of historian Franklin H. Chase on rear paste-down. ISTC ia01318000; Pr 724; GW 3006; Bod-Inc: A-597; Hain 1998; Goff A‑1318; BMC I 161

A very scarce edition of this popular work, previously attributed to St. Augustine, although this is now doubted.

ISTC locates only six other copies in the United States, and 72 overall copies in institutions worldwide.