Creator
St. Augustine.
Title
[City of God]
Coverage
[Subiaco]
Publisher
[Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz]
Date
[1467]
Description
This is the first printed edition of Augustine’s City of God, and one of the four books printed by German printers Konrad Sweynheim and Arnold Pannartz in the Benedictine monastery of Subiaco, the cradle of Italian printing. It is also the earliest complete printed book in the Grolier Club Library. The illumination of this initial leaf of text incorporates a roundel portrait of Saint Augustine, holding in his hands Hippo and the “City of God.”
Source
Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1897.