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LULL, Ramon. Arbor scientiae. Lyons: Gilbert de Villiers for Guillaume Huyon & Constantin Fradin, 4 May 1515.
Small 4° (190 x 135 mm.). Collation: a-z, A-E4. Gothic type. Double column. 5 large woodcuts used 16 times. (First three leaves a little dampstained, upper blank margin of title cut away and restored.) 18th-century green vellum, spine gilt (label rubbed). Provenance: Masonic bookplate of the 'Supreme Council 33'.
Third, but second Latin and illustrated edition, previously published in Barcelona 1505. An encyclopaedia of all knowledge, the sixteen trees representing the various categories of ideas. The last section of the work contains some 4000 questions and answers headed 'Questiones brancharum' and 'Questiones foliorum'. The first edition to contain the commendatory epigram by Badius Ascensius on the title. Without the ten leaves of the 'Introductorium magnae artis generalis', published separately 28 April 1515. E. Rogent and E. Duran, Bibliografia de les impressiones Lullianes (Barcelona 1927) no. 55; Bandrier XI, 107; Renouard, Badius Ascensius III. p. 44.
Small 4° (190 x 135 mm.). Collation: a-z, A-E4. Gothic type. Double column. 5 large woodcuts used 16 times. (First three leaves a little dampstained, upper blank margin of title cut away and restored.) 18th-century green vellum, spine gilt (label rubbed). Provenance: Masonic bookplate of the 'Supreme Council 33'.
Third, but second Latin and illustrated edition, previously published in Barcelona 1505. An encyclopaedia of all knowledge, the sixteen trees representing the various categories of ideas. The last section of the work contains some 4000 questions and answers headed 'Questiones brancharum' and 'Questiones foliorum'. The first edition to contain the commendatory epigram by Badius Ascensius on the title. Without the ten leaves of the 'Introductorium magnae artis generalis', published separately 28 April 1515. E. Rogent and E. Duran, Bibliografia de les impressiones Lullianes (Barcelona 1927) no. 55; Bandrier XI, 107; Renouard, Badius Ascensius III. p. 44.