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St Augustine

Incunabula {525 years old}

https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/601j-augustinus-pseudo/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/10/21/466j-balthasar-de-porta-fl-1487-1499-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/10/21/an-annotated-livy-venice-1491-a-humanists-working-copy-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/453j-diogenes-laertius-philosophorum-vita/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/753j-dunns-scotus-c-1265-1308/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/02/03/eusebius-la-vita-el-transito-1487/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/10/21/the-letters-of-marsilio-ficino-1497-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/05/30/two-incunabula-bound-together-one-very-rare-printed-at-vienne-by-eberhard-frommolt/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/08/annotated-on-almost-every-page/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/12/purity-and-paradox-lavacrum-conscientiae/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/05/22/q-horatius-flaccus-opera-1481-with-two-ancient-commentators/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/12/11/annotated-copy-of-a-1497-juvenal-3/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/24/julian-pomerius-a-contemplative-life-1487-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2026/01/08/a-sammelband-of-renaissance-humanist-defense-of-faith/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/01/30/aristotle-and-burley-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2024/07/01/lives-of-church-fathers-in-1487-printed-by-hannibal-foxius-two-north-american-copies-2/ https://jamesgray2.me/2025/09/03/suso-horologium-aeternae-sapientiae-koln-1501-edited-by-elsbeth-stagel-copy/ JAMESGRAY2@ME.COM Incunabula January 2026Download

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Eusebius: (La vita el transito) 1487

Two North American copies. 658J. Eusebius -(275-339) (La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi). [Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487].               $7,000 Octavo 16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i8. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2 intermediate margins reinforced with old paper strips, small worming marks on 4 leaves. – Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label “Transito di San Gerolamo, Venetia, 1487” This collection... Continue Reading →

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601J Augustinus (pseudo) Jean de Fécamp 

601J Libellus meditationum Jean de Fécamp (early 11th century - 22 February 1079) Pseudo-Augustine; Saint Augustine 354-430; Bernard of Claravallensis 1090-1153; Peter Damian 1007-1072; Saint Anselm of Canterbury, 1033-1109; Vincent Ferrer 1350-1419; Maffeo Vegio 1407-1458; Pope Pius II,(Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini)... Continue Reading →

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Lives of church fathers in 1487, printed by Hannibal Foxius. Two North American copies.

658J. Eusebius - Only Two copies in the US (La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi). [Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487].               $7,000 Quarto  16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i8. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2 intermediate margins reinforced with old paper strips, small worming marks on 4 leaves. – Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label "Transito di San Gerolamo, Venetia, 1487" This collection of pseudonymous works... Continue Reading →

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3 rare theological incunabula.

Hieronymus: Vita et transitus (i.e., Eusebius Cremonensis. 1587 Augustinus, Aurelius:Meditationes ( Invocatio dei omnipotentis).1498 Suso: Horologium aeternae sapientiae. 1500 All three of these important works of guided spirituality are barely represented in North America or world wide. Lives of church... Continue Reading →

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Lives of church fathers in 1487, printed by Hannibal Foxius. Two North American copies.

658J. Eusebius - Only Two copies in the US (La vita el transito) Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De Miraculis Hieronymi). [Venice, Hannibal Foxius, 1 June 1487].               $7,000 Octavo 16.7x12cm. Signatures: a–i8. 72 leaves, 36 lines, Roman letter, rubricated with capital letters in red ink. Several annotations in ink and marginal notes, first leaf mounted, 5 leaves, small wormholes touching the letters on the front edge of 4 leaves, 2 intermediate margins reinforced with old paper strips, small worming marks on 4 leaves. – Bound in twentieth century quarter Morocco, with a spine label "Transito di San Gerolamo, Venetia, 1487" This collection of pseudonymous works are... Continue Reading →

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So…? What is that book? What is it about??

A lot of early books don't seem to give you much from a distance. That might be a major attraction for me, yet at book fairs a lot of book lovers are reluctant to look into or even peek at,... Continue Reading →

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 SEVEN BOOKS AGAINST THE PAGANS.

OROSIUS' SEVEN BOOKS OF HISTORY AGAINST THE PAGANS  THE FIRST WORLD HISTORY BY A CHRISTIAN COMPLETED C. 418 CE. #277J Orosius, Paulus Orosius (385-420). Historiae adversus paganos, edited by Aeneas Vulpes. Scias velim humanissime lector: Aeneam Vulpem Vicentinum priorem sanctae crucis... Continue Reading →

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Two copies 1475 & 1500 of OROSIUS’ SEVEN BOOKS OF HISTORY AGAINST THE PAGANS  THE FIRST WORLD HISTORY BY A CHRISTIAN COMPLETED C. 418 CE.

. 526J. Paulus Orosius (385-420). Pauli Orosii Viri Doctissimi Historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum; Historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum; Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII.         Venedig: Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 12.oct.1500          price $8,000 Folio 30 x 20 cm. Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁸ (a1 blank and... Continue Reading →

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