Augustinus, Aurelius [pseudo-]: De vita christiana.

Add:  De singularitate clericorum.

[Cologne]:  Ulrich Zel, 1467.
4to.   [1-7⁸].   [56] leaves, 1, 21, 55 and 56 blank.
ISTC ia01355000; GW 3038; Goff A1355; BMC I 179 (IA. 2713); Bod-inc A-607; CIBN A-773; BSB-Ink P-122.

The De vita christiana has been doubtfully attributed to Pelagius or Fastidius;  the De singularitate clericorum is also attributed to Pseudo- Cyprianus.

GIP number:	A123
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.24 (see main library entry for this item)
Bound with:	The first of two incunabula bound together.   Bound with:  Johannes Chrysostomus, Liber de eo quod nemo laeditur ab alio nisi a semetipso fuerit laesus.  [Cologne:  Ulrich Zel, ca. 1470].
Note:	Four printer's pin-holes visible.
Provenance:	Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 244 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive:  supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769), where the binding is incorrectly described as “mar. r.” NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 99 livres 18 sous. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 58 livres 1 sou;  see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.24v), where the binding is correctly described as “M: Cit:” University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ay.5.12”.
Binding:	France, 18th-century citron goatskin ("morocco"), decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  gold-tooled spine;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves;  blue silk bookmark.   Size:  220 x 147 mm.
Leaf size:	215 x 138 mm.
Annotations:	Occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand, often extracting keywords;  occasional manicules, “nota” marks and underlining;  erased ownership(?) inscription on 1/2r;  heavily washed-out annotation on 3/6r (f.22r) probably relating to the attribution of the De singularitate clericorum to Cyprianus;  on 1/1r (the first blank leaf) is a full page of Latin text in a 16th-century hand headed “De Confessione”;  on 7/7v (f.56v) is an inscription in French in a 17th/18th-century hand beginning “Mosieur mon cosin ...”
Decoration:	Four-line initial “E” on 1/2r, four-line initial “C” on 1/3r and four-line initial “M” on 3/6r (f.22r) supplied in red;  paragraph marks and capital strokes in red on the same leaves.
Imperfections:	None.