Incunable: Aurelius Augustinus: Explanatio Psalmorum. Tertia quinquagena. Basel. Johann Amerbach. 1489. Wooden boards, with ornate blindtooled goatskin spine. With four raised bands, and metal clasps. With slight repair to titlepage. Two columns, 54 lines, headlines and printed (and handwritten) marginalia. Covering psalms 101–150.
With various early owner-inscriptions, among them from the Carmelite Monastery in Striegau [Strzegom]. The Basel publisher Johann Amerbach published more than 70 works between 1478 and 1513. He was a renowned printer who published several antique classiques by Petrarca and others as well as works by the church fathers Augustinus and Ambrosius.
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