Augustinus Aurelius (354-430)

Claude Michel (Michael)

D. AVRELII AVGVSTINI, HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI CONFESSIONVM

Tournon-sur-Rhône, 1588
Format 16°, 15 x 8.5 cm. 448 numbered pages, [11] l., in Latin. Title page with printer`s device printed in black. Sturdy leather binding, spine with 3 raised bands, a label and pen-written notes. Published by Claude Michel in Tournon-sur-Rhône in 1588. On the front blank leaf, a Latin epigram from the work ARS NOVA ARGVTIARVM Epigrammata et Epigraphica by R. P. IACOB. MASENIUS of the SOC. IESU: Epigramma In Divi Augustini Confessiones. Virtutes alii proprias per compita vulgent: Tu mihi vulgato crimine, major eris. Nam tibi mutato surgit de crimine virtus: His, quod erat virtus, incipit esse scelus. Ownership inscriptions on the front pastedown and title page: "Bibl. paroch. Lubenc." (Bibliotheca parochialis Lubencensis – the parish library of Lubenec, in northwestern Bohemia) "Ex Libris Friderici Kastl Curati Chisiensis" (of the parish priest in Chyše, in the Karlovy Vary region)