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ANSELMUS, Saint (1033-1109). Opera. Edited by Petrus Danhauser. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 27 March 1491.
First edition of the works of St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury and first book printed by Hochfeder. St Anselm was a celebrated divine and founder of scholastic theology. He studied under Lanfranc at Bec where he assumed the monastic habit (1060). He succeeded Lanfranc as Abbot (1078), and as Archbishop of Canterbury (1093). HC *1134; GW 2032; BMC II 473; Bod-inc A-303; BSB-Ink A-554; ISTC ia00759000; Goff A-759.
Chancery folio (274 x 195mm). 182 leaves. Opening initial in red and blue, others in red or blue, rubricated in red and blue (light worming touching a few letters, text block loose, paper flaws). Contemporary limp blindstamped pigskin, hole from chain hasp on rear cover, vellum bifolium fragment of 14th century manuscript sermons of William of Auvergne in German hand reused on spine of text block, manuscript title on upper cover (covers detached, wormed, lower corner torn). Provenance: Kaisersheim (now Kaisheim) Cistercian Abbey (inscriptions).
First edition of the works of St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury and first book printed by Hochfeder. St Anselm was a celebrated divine and founder of scholastic theology. He studied under Lanfranc at Bec where he assumed the monastic habit (1060). He succeeded Lanfranc as Abbot (1078), and as Archbishop of Canterbury (1093). HC *1134; GW 2032; BMC II 473; Bod-inc A-303; BSB-Ink A-554; ISTC ia00759000; Goff A-759.
Chancery folio (274 x 195mm). 182 leaves. Opening initial in red and blue, others in red or blue, rubricated in red and blue (light worming touching a few letters, text block loose, paper flaws). Contemporary limp blindstamped pigskin, hole from chain hasp on rear cover, vellum bifolium fragment of 14th century manuscript sermons of William of Auvergne in German hand reused on spine of text block, manuscript title on upper cover (covers detached, wormed, lower corner torn). Provenance: Kaisersheim (now Kaisheim) Cistercian Abbey (inscriptions).
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