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ST AUGUSTINE and Pseudo-Augustinus, Works in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [north-eastern Italy, early 15th century] 232 x 162 mm. 140 leaves: 1-14 1 0, COMPLETE, 39 lines written in a neat semi-gothic script in brown ink between two verticals and 40 horizontals ruled in lead, justification: 160 x 92 mm, horizontal catchwords in centre lower margin on final versos, original foliation in roman numerals in centre upper margin of each recto, running titles and marginal corrections in a hand very similar to that of the text, neat later marginalia in several hands, rubrics in red, FOURTEEN ILLUMINATED INITIALS 8-21 lines high in leafy patterns of red, orange, blue and green with white tracery on square grounds of liquid gold, two-line initials in red or blue flourished red (minor losses to lower blank margin of first 8 leaves, occasional slight smudging). 18th-century German blind-tooled pigskin over thin wooden boards, two clasps (lacking one clasp, extremities slightly worn, damage to outer lower corners of covers). PROVENANCE: 1. Weissenau, Premonstratensian abbey in Wrttemberg; 18th-cent. inscription on f.1: 'Bibliothecae Weissenaviensis' 2. Isfried Winkler (d. 1834), canon of Weissenau from 1785 until the secularization in 1803, last librarian of the abbey, after 1803 parish priest in Obereschach (Wrttemberg); inscription as noted under 3 below 3. Joseph Korros, who was perhaps a relative of Johann Christoph Korros (abbot of Weissenau, 1696-1704), the gift of Isfried Winkler; inscription on front flyleaf: 'Plurimum Reverendo Domino Josepho Korros NeoMystae die 6ta Septembris 1827. Hunc librum manuscriptum dedicat Isfridus Winkler Parochus in OberEschach, Olim capitularis in Weissenau Canonici Ordini Praemonstratensis.' CONTENT: ff.1-10v Sermo de symbolo et fide contra paganos et hereticos vel iudeos (Quodvultdeus, Sermo 4; Patrologia latina 42, 1117 = Clavis patrum latinorum 404); ff.10v-15v De disciplina christianorum (Augustinus, Sermo de disciplina christiana; PL 40, 669 = CPL 310); ff.15v-21 De predestinatione . (Pseudo-Augustine, Hypomnesticon, book 6; PL 45, 1657 = CPL 381); ff.21-24 Sermo de natiuitate domini (Pseudo-Augustinus, Sermo in natale domini [Augustinus, Sermo 117]; PL 39, 1977 = CPL 1006); ff.24-41v De mendatio (Augustinus, De mendacio; PL 40, 487 = CPL 303); ff.41v-55v De perfectione iusticie (Augustinus, De perfectione iustitiae hominis; PL 44, 291 = CPL 347); ff.55v-66 De cura pro mortuis gerenda (Augustinus, De cura pro mortuis gerenda, PL 40, 591 = CPL 307); ff.66-67 Sermo de consolatione mortuorum (Augustinus, Sermo 172 [part]; PL 38, 936 = CPL 284); ff.67-71 Expositio supra symbolum (Augustinus, Sermo 213; PL 38, 1065 = CPL 284); ff.71-72v De resurrectione mortuorum (Augustinus, De civitate dei, book 20, chap. 2; PL 41, 687 = CPL 313); ff.72v-74 An statim in aduentu domini credendum sit futurum iudicium (Augustinus, De octo Dulcitii quaestionibus, questio 3; PL 40, 158 = CPL 291); ff.74-90v De spiritu et anima (?Alcher of Clairvaux, De spiritu et anima; PL 40, 779); ff.91-103v De vita christiana (Pelagius, Liber de vita christiana; PL 40, 1031 = CPL 730); ff.103v-122v De videndo deum (Augustinus, Epistola 147; PL 33, 596 = CPL 262); ff.122v-134v De decem cordis . (Augustinus, Sermo 9; PL 38, 75 = CPL 284), preceded by four elegaic couplets, inc.: Iste liber modico tenuis sit Aorpore quamuis (H. Walther, Versanfnge mitttellateinischer Dichtungen , no. 9619); ff.134v-140v Exhortatio quedam notabilis ad sacerdotes qui raro legunt missam . Inc.: Quando vox illa iusticie auribus meis insonuit... A dialogue between a bishop and a priest. St Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was perhaps the most influential of the four Fathers of the Latin church. His works remained fundamental to Christian teaching and doctrine throughout the Middle Ages. Not only were his sermons and treatises frequently copied, but Augustine's very reputation attracted wishful and spurious attributions of sermons and treatises