Meditações, Soliloquios e Manual que compoz o glorioso doutor da igreja S. Agostinho Bispo de Hipona. Traduzida da lingua Latina na portugueza. BOUND WITH:Soliloquios devotos que compoz o glorioso doutor da igreja S. Agostinho Bispo de Hipona. Traduzida da lingua Latina na portugueza. AND BOUND WITH:Manual do glorioso doutor da igreja S. Agostinho Bispo de Hipona, ou memorial da contemplação de Christo, e verbo de Deus: Para removar a lembrança amortecida dos desejos do Ceo.

Lisbon, Na Offic. Patr. de Francisco Luiz Ameno [first volume]; Na Of. Patr. de Francisco Luiz Ameno [second and third volumes], 1784.. First Edition in Portuguese. 3 volumes in 1. 8°, slightly later crimson morocco (only the very slightest wear, consisting of a corner minimally bumped), smooth spine richly gilt with olive green morocco lettering piece and short title lettered gilt, covers with elaborate gilt borders, "Amizade // 1802" lettered gilt within smaller gilt frame on front, small circular gilt vignette on rear, edges of covers double ruled in gilt, edges of head and foot of spine milled gilt, marbled endleaves, all text block edges gilt. Same woodcut vignette on all three title pages. Woodcut headpiece and small initial on p. 5 of first volume. Typographical tailpiece on p. 248 of first volume. Typographical headpiece and small woodcut initial on p. 3 of second volume. Small typographical tailpiece on p. 117 of third volume. In very fine condition. 248 pp., (2 ll.); 205, (3); 117, (3) pp. *** First Editions in Portuguese of these three treatises. The translator and editor, who provides a brief introduction to the first volume, was probably the printer, Francisco Luis Ameno (1713-1793). Sometime schoolteacher, minor literary talent, editor, and translator of Italian opera libretti, Ameno opened a Lisbon printing office in 1748. Augustine's Soliloquia is argued to be the direct literary predecessor of the Confessions, with respect to how allegory is used in the organization of an inner dialogue (see Brian Stock, Augustine's Inner Dialogue: The Philosophical Soliloquy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 74). The soliloquies also influenced theologians of the Middle Ages, including Anselm of Canterbury's Monologion (Stock, p. 67)*** Gonalves Rodrigues, A tradução em Portugal 1516 (cf. 1514, 1515 & 1517, citing the titles of the three volumes separately). Porbase cites this title with 117 pp. (the third volume only?) without any information regarding location of any copy. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the record cited by Porbase. Not located in Hollis or Orbis.