Jerome's final translations of the Old Testament books direct from the
Hebrew were all adopted into the received Latin version, the Vulgate,
except this of the Psalms. Here his earlier revision of the old Italic
version on the basis of the Septuagint had become so firmly established
in liturgical use that the translation from the Hebrew, though more
exact, could not displace it. This appears to be the first printed
edition.
Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliæ.
7. MODUS PERVENIENDI AD SUMMAM SAPIENTIAM. [Augsburg, Günther Zainer, c.
1473.]
_Fol. 1^a_: [S]Entite de do_m_ino in bo_n_itate e_t_ in simplicitate
cordis q_uae_rite illu_m_. _Fol. 2^a_: Explicit prologus Incipit modus
ad summam p_er_veniendi sapienciam. _Fol. 24^a, l. 33_, END: sibi sparso
diuinit_us_ in ip_sum_ ardentissime se extendit _etc._ _Fol. 24^b,
blank._
Folio. Quires [1-2^{10}, 3^4], 24 leaves, 33 lines to the page,
gothic letter, without signatures, catchwords or pagination, place,
printer's name or date. Two- to four-line spaces left for capitals,
which are supplied in red. Initial-strokes in red. Hain *11490.
Brit. Mus. 15th cent., II, p. 320 (IB. 5531).
Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
8. HUGO de SANCTO VICTORE. Soliloquium de arrha animae. [Augsburg,
Günther Zainer.] 12 October, 1473.
_Fol. 1^a_: Incipit soliloquium beatissimi Augustini episcopi yponensi
(_sic_) de arra anime. _Fol. 7^b_, END: Rapt_us_ est finis hui_us_
tractat_us_ August_in_i de arra ani_m_e. feria t_er_cia post festu_m_
s_an_cti Dyonisy Anno d_omi_ni lxxiij _etc._ _Fol. 8, blank._
Folio. 8 leaves, the last blank, 33 lines to the page, gothic
letter, without place or printer's name. Three-line space for first
initial and initial-strokes supplied in red. Blank last leaf
wanting. Hain *2021. Pellechet 1525. Brit. Mus. 15th cent., p. 319
(IB. 5451).
The author of the work here directly ascribed to St. Augustine was the
mystic theologian Hugo de Sancto Victore (1097-1140), member of the
Canons Regular of St. Augustine and head of the abbey school of St.
Victor, near Paris. From his familiarity with the writings of Augustine
and likeness to his spirit, he was styled _Alter Augustinus_, a title
which furnishes a plausible but not wholly satisfactory explanation of
the confusion in the present case. For among the spurious writings which
have been put under Augustine's name more than one has been borrowed
from this author. For example, chapters 5-10 of the _Liber de diligendo
Deo_ are taken almost word for word from the present treatise.
In the present edition of this soliloquy cast in the form of a dialogue
the interlocutors are _Augustinus_ and _Anima_ (both names always
printed in capitals); in a Strassburg edition of about the same date,
_Hugo_ and _anima sua_; in the collected edition of Hugo's works, _homo_
and _anima_.
Bound with No. 5. Gregorii Homiliae.
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