Canon pro reco[m]mendatione huius famosi operis siue libelli seque[n]tis, De arte predicandi sancti Augustini
Publisher: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer
Published: 1467
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: lat
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Hermeneutics; Early works to 1800; Preaching; Bible
Other titles: De arte predicandi sancti Augustini; Explic[it] q[ua]rtus de doctrina [christ]iana beati Augustini episcopi; Quartus de docrtina Christiana Beati Augustini episcopi
Work titles: De doctrina Christiana. Liber 4
Notes: Imprint from ISTC. Johann Fust, who died in 1467, is named in the preface as the printer: ""Discreto viro Johanni Fust incole Magu[n]tinensi impressorie artis mag[ist]ro ... onus et laborem."

Title from leaf [1a].

Printed in a single column, 40 to 41 lines per page; capital spaces.

Signatures: [a¹⁰, b¹²].

Gothic type.

Printed in black with handwritten additions and illuminated letters in red.

In his Canon pro reco[m]mendatione huius famosi operis, the anonymous editor states that after diligently collating all the copies he could find at Heidelberg, Speier, Worms, and at last also at Strassburg (tandem etiam in argentina) he desired to make the improved text available for the use of students: "Qua p[ro]pter. cu[m] nullo alio modo siue medio, id expedicius fieri posse iudicare[m], discreto viro Iohanni fust incole magu[n]tinensi impressorie artis m[a]g[ist]ro modis omnib[us] p[er]suasi. quatenus ip[s]e assume[t] dignaret[que] onus et laborem. multiplicandi hu[n]c libellum per viam impressionis ..." The same words, however, with the use of the name Mentelin instead of Fust, occur in Mentelin's two undated editions, and it is probable from the phrase 'tandem etiam in argentina' that it was at Strassburg that the book was first set up. The fact that the table on 21b, 22a of Fust's edition is not found in either of Mentelin's may be taken as evidence either for or against its priority. The stress laid on it in Schoeffer's catalog of the books he had for sale (c. 1469) 'Item Augustini de doctrina [Christ]iana, cum tabula notabili p[re]dicantib[us]' seems to show that it was an addition on which he prided himself, and there is no reason why if Mentelin were the imitator he should not have copied this also. In Schoeffer's catalog this is the fifth of the twenty-one books advertised.  The position supports the view that it may have been printed earlier in the sixties, but the press-mark given it by Proctor suggests that he believed Fust to have been the original printer--See BMC I, p. 21.

Listed in Goff as the second printing.

F.W. Householder in The Library ser. 4 24 (1943-44) pp. 30-46 argues that this edition preceded Mentelin's (Goff A1226) rather than the other way around (but cf. BMC).

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 1957

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, 70

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 21

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A-1227

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 02872

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A-515

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog, A-870

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia01227000

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