ANSELMUS (1033-1109). Opera. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 27 March, 1491. Median 2 o (250 x 171 mm). Collation : [π 4 ] a-d 8 e 6 f-s 8 t-z ι 6 . 180 leaves (of 182; lacking title and last blank) 45 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic type 2:168 . , (head-line), 1:83 (text). Capital spaces with printed guide-letters. Rubricated with blue or red Lombard initials and red paragraph marks. (Minor marginal worming and staining, a few marginal repairs, ι4 torn and ι5 with marginal repair, affecting text.) 18th-century vellum over wooden boards, two brass clasps. Provenance : Königsgrätz, Bohemia "Conventus Gradicensis" (ownership inscription at beginning). -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943). FIRST EDITION of the works of St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury and first book published 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). BSB-Ink. A-554; BMC II,473 (IB. 8153); GW 2032; H *1134; Pr 2285; Goff A-759.
ANSELMUS (1033-1109). Opera. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 27 March, 1491. Median 2 o (250 x 171 mm). Collation : [π 4 ] a-d 8 e 6 f-s 8 t-z ι 6 . 180 leaves (of 182; lacking title and last blank) 45 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic type 2:168 . , (head-line), 1:83 (text). Capital spaces with printed guide-letters. Rubricated with blue or red Lombard initials and red paragraph marks. (Minor marginal worming and staining, a few marginal repairs, ι4 torn and ι5 with marginal repair, affecting text.) 18th-century vellum over wooden boards, two brass clasps. Provenance : Königsgrätz, Bohemia "Conventus Gradicensis" (ownership inscription at beginning). -- Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943) -- donated to SMS November 1943). FIRST EDITION of the works of St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury and first book published 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). BSB-Ink. A-554; BMC II,473 (IB. 8153); GW 2032; H *1134; Pr 2285; Goff A-759.
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