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Creator:
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
Title(s):
Auctor operum sequentium.
Additional Title(s):
Opera
Published/Created:
In urbe Basiliensium : Per magistrum Iohannem de Amerbach impressum, anno salutiferi virginalis partus nonagesimosecundo supra millesimum quaterque centesimum [1492]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (woodcut) ; 32 cm (fol)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0663
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Title from v. 1, with woodcut of St Ambrose below.
Edited by Johann Amerbach and Johannes de Lapide--cf. preface (leaf a2r of v. 1).
Imprint from colophon (leaf o6r of v. 3): " ... ad laudem dei in urbe Basiliensium per magistru[m] Iohannem de amerbach impressum: Anno salutiferi uirginalis partus nonagesimosecu[n]do supra millesimum quaterq[ue] centesimu[m] ..."
Printed in single and double columns, single columns in Roman (Humanist) type (De officiis and Epistolae, v. 3, only) and double columns in Black letter type.
Initial spaces, some with printed guide-letters.
Includes bibliographical references.
Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00551000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-551
Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 896*
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 1599
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, III, page 753
Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 3264
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0663: Imperfect: the frontispiece only, with woodcut of St. Ambrose in his study (previously attributed to Dürer). From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- Early church, ca. 30–600.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Johannes, de Lapide, approximately 1425–1496, editor.
Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, editor.
Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.
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