St Augustine
The City of God
Translated by Marcus Dods, 1871
What this is
Begun after Rome was sacked in 410, when pagans were saying the city fell because it had abandoned its gods. Twenty-two books answering that, and in answering it inventing the philosophy of history: two cities, one earthly and one heavenly, running together through time and separated only at the end.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.