[INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint). - Lot 44

[INCUNABLE] - AUGUSTIN (Saint). Aurelii Augustini opuscula plurima. Argentina [Strasbourg] : Martin Flach, March 20, 1489. - In-folio, 285 x 201 : (6 ff.), CCLXVII ff., (1 f. blank). [sig. a6 b8 c-h8/6 i8 k-z8/6 A-K8/6 L-Q6/8]. Sow skin on wooden boards, boards decorated with framed fillets and cold foliate scrolls, cold cross braces in the center, spine ribbed (period binding). Polain, I, 395. - Pellechet, 1460 - BMC, I, 149b. - Proctor, 681. - Hain *1948. First Strasbourg edition of Saint Augustine's Opuscula plurima, printed by Martin Flach, who published a new edition in 1491. This is a collection of various treatises by Saint Augustine. Several editions were published under this title, but almost all differ from one another. This edition includes the following texts: Meditationes, Soliloquia, Manuale de verbo Dei, Enchyridion, De triplici habitaculo, Scala paradisi, De duodecim abusionum gradibus, De beata vita, De assumptione virginis marie, De divination demonum (a treatise on pagan divinatory practices and their demonic origins), De honestate mulierum, De cura agenda pro mortuis, De vera et falsa penitentia, De cordis contritione, De contemptu mundi, De convenientia decem preceptorum, De congnitione vere vite, the 13 books of Confessions, the 4 books of Christian Doctrine, De fide ad petrum, De vita et moribus clericorum, De vera reliogione, De spiritu et anima, De vita christiana, De diffinitonibus orthodoxe fidei, De disciplina christiana, Sermo de charitate, De decem chordis, De ebrietate, De vanitate seculi, De obedientia et humilitate, De agone christiano, De bono discipline, Regula de communi vita clericorum et Possidonius de vita santi Augustini. The edition is printed in Gothic type in two 50-line columns. It was printed by Martin Flach (144.-1500), a bourgeois from Strasbourg whose activity as a printer is attested in that city in 1487. He died on October 26, 1500. Exemplaire en reliure de l'époque, enrichée de quelques notes marginales anciennes dans les marges. Reliure restaurée, les coiffes ont été refaites, les gardes renouvelées. The indications on the spine are later, and the clasps are missing. Soiling and wormholes on boards. Holes and a few wormholes on the leaves. Some wetness, especially at the end. Angular tear to leaf CCLIX, without damage to text. Provenance: library of Franciscans of the Strict Observance, with handwritten bookplate on title "Pro bibliotheca Rev[erendum] f[ra]t[rum] minor[um] de observantia".