Portable Incunabule collection of Philosophical, Spiritual and Mystical texts, 1498

AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Meditationes
[with] AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. Soliloquia. Manuale
[with] Pseudo-Bernardus CLARAVALLENSIS. Meditationes. Epistola de perfectione vitae
[with] DAMIANI, Petrus. Sermo
[with] S. ANSELM OF CANTERBURY. Meditationes
[with] N. LAUDENSIS. Carmina
[with] PICCOLOMINI, Enea Silvio (POPE PIUS II). In laudem divi Augustini
[with] MAFFEO VEGIO. Epigramma in laudem Monicae
[with] FERRER, Vincent. De vita spirituali
[with] Pseudo-Bernardus CLARAVALLENSIS. Sermo de passione domini
Brescia: Angelo Britannico, 8 October 1498

Dimensions
8vo (136 x 98 mm)

Description
[146] pp. Collation: a–n8 o10 p8 l8 m12; Text in Latin in 2 columns, Gothic types 8:115G and 13:67G, 32 lines. Fine woodcut head-letters. A capital space with an initial D rubricated with pen-work.

Binding
Contemporary full leather with blind-tooling on both covers, two raised bands to spine (lower spine-end repaired), one brass clasp preserved, small central blind-tool with the mark (IHS) of the Company of
Jesus, brown edges.

Condition
Minor traces of use, but fine and unsophisticated.

Very rare pocket size collection of philosophical, spiritual and mystical texts by some of the greatest ancient, medieval and humanistic Christian thinkers: Saint Augustin, Bernard of Clairveaux, Anselm of Canterbury, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Maffeo Vegio, Vincent Ferrer.

Provenance
1. Near contemporary inscription ‘Est S(anc)ti Ben(edic)ti Mantuani’ on verso of title page.
2. Another owner’s inscription ‘armani (?)’ at title-page.
3. Company of Jesus (see the tool at covers of the binding).

References
IGI 1013; GW 2972 (Pseudo-Augustinus); BMC VII 980; BSB-Ink L-136; Goff A1294; HC (Add) 1951; Sajó-Soltész 406; IBE 126; IBPort 35; Madsen 442; Schmitt II 2828,15; Hubay (Eichstätt) 110; Oates 2628; Proctor 6998; ISTC ia01294000. G.J. GUSSAGO, Tipografia Bresciana, pp.150-151.