AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (Pseudo; attributed to PELAGIUS [fl.380/418-429]). De vita christiana. [Mainz:] Peter Schoeffer, [between 1470 and 1475]. Third edition. Printed with the Durandus type in its post-1466/67 state.
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Chancery half-sheet 4to (194 x 138 mm). Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰] (1/1r prologue, 1/2r text, 2/9v colophon, Schoeffer's shield device printed in red, 2/10 blank). 16 leaves (of 18, lacking [2/1] and final blank [2/10]). Type: 3:91G. (The first 6 leaves brittle with marginal chips and repaired tears crossing text, 4 of which with minor loss, leaf [1/6] nearly detached, browned and brittle at center with damage and repairs affecting text, leaf [2/1] replaced in photographic facsimile, library stamp obscuring a little text on leaf [1/1].) Modern vellum over flexible boards. Provenance: Munich, Royal Library ("Bibliotheca regia Monacensis" ink stamp on lower margin of [1/1], and [2/9v]); J. -B. Colbert de Beaulieu (large ex-libris leaf inserted and front, followed by a page of bibliographic notes dated 1942 with Colbert de Beaulieu blindstamp).
Third edition. Printed with the Durandus type in its post-1466/67 state, it is typographically closely allied to Schoeffer's edition of Gerson, dated to not after September 1470. The text has been attributed to the late 4th/early 5th-century writer Pelagius and his pupil Fastidius. H *2093; GW 3039; BMC I, 37 (IA. 270-271a); CIBN A-774; Bod.inc. A-608; Goff A-1356.