ANSELMUS, Saint (1033/34-1109). Opera. [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1497]. Chancery 4° (201 x 136mm). Collation: A-B8 a-z8 \\m8 (A1r title, A1v contents, A2r annotations on the principal sentences of S. Anselm, a1 Opera, \\m8v blank). 208 leaves. 49-50 lines and headline, double column, 3-9-line initial spaces with guide-letter. Type: 11*: 77G, 82G, 19:62G, 26:148G. (Few wormholes at beginning and end affecting a few letters, last leaf with neat repaired tear and paper flaw into text.) 19th-century reimboitage incorporating sections of 16th-century calf sides tooled with blind rolls over thick wooden boards, red edges (joints split and worn). Provenance: 17-18th-century library inscription erased from title.

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ANSELMUS, Saint (1033/34-1109). Opera. [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1497]. Chancery 4° (201 x 136mm). Collation: A-B8 a-z8 \\m8 (A1r title, A1v contents, A2r annotations on the principal sentences of S. Anselm, a1 Opera, \\m8v blank). 208 leaves. 49-50 lines and headline, double column, 3-9-line initial spaces with guide-letter. Type: 11*: 77G, 82G, 19:62G, 26:148G. (Few wormholes at beginning and end affecting a few letters, last leaf with neat repaired tear and paper flaw into text.) 19th-century reimboitage incorporating sections of 16th-century calf sides tooled with blind rolls over thick wooden boards, red edges (joints split and worn). Provenance: 17-18th-century library inscription erased from title.

Third edition. Amerbach presented four copies of this work to the Carthusian monastery at Basel in 1497. HC *1136; GW 2033; BMC III, 759 (IA. 37512); Goff A-761.

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