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JOHN OF SALISBURY. Metalogicus e codice manuscripto academiae Cantabrigiensis - Leyden: 1639. 8vo. Two parts in one volume. A very good copy in full vellum with yapp edges. Green morocco letterpiece on spine. The 2nd of 3 pre 1700 Printings and the first to be bound after Polycraticus. John was a contemporary of Peter Abelard and this book by identifying adherents of different philosophical schools in Paris supplements what Abelard himself wrote on this subject. However it is its Irish context that offers special interest as no other papal document has exercised such a devastating effect upon the course of Irish History to match the bull Laudabiliter of Pope Hadrian IV. Indeed for centuries its very authenticity was questioned by Irish historians but according to a footnote to Father F X Martin�s essay on the coming of the Anglo Normans (A New History of Ireland, Volume II) �an important hitherto overlooked copy of Laudabiliter was recently located by Marie Therese Flanagan. Her discovery, in conjunction with another relevant copy of the bull is evaluated by Michael Richter � (Irish Historical Studies 1979 pages 430 - 431) � His conclusion is unqualified: It is no longer permissible to doubt the authenticity of Laudabiliter�. Near the end of this work John of Salisbury, chief adviser to the recently crowned Henry II, describes how in 1155 he approached his friend the first and so far only English born pope pointing out the crying need for reform of the Church in Ireland and arguing that only intervention by his master could bring this about. He writes �In response to my petition the pope granted and donated Ireland to the illustrious king of England, Henry, to be held by him and his successors, as his letters, still extant, testify. He did this by virtue of the long-established right, reputed to derive from the donation of Constantine, whereby all Islands are considered to belong to the Roman Church. Moreover, through me the pope sent the king a gold ring, set with a magnificent emerald, as a sign that he had invested the king with the right to rule Ireland; it was later directed by the king that this ring be kept in the public treasury.� According to Gerald of Wales twenty years later the ring was to be found in the Royal Treasury of Winchester. The selection by the pope of a precious stone coloured green may have seen appropriate but it would be associated with much shedding of blood in the centuries that followed. Sweeney 2599.1 Exceedingly rare. BOUND WITH AND PRECEDED BY JOHN OF SALISBURY. Policraticus sive de nugis curialium, et vestigiis philosophorum, libri octo - Leyden: 1639. 8vo. The 4th of 5 pre 1700 printings. This is John of Salisbury�s big book and the one on which his reputation as one of the foremost English philosophers of the Middle Ages is based. For the last four years of his life, he died in 1280, he was Bishop of Chartres. Provenance: own ownership inscription of Petrus Guizard and a handsome book plate of Francis Philip Nash. JOHN OF SALISBURY. Metalogicus e codice manuscripto academiae Cantabrigiensis - Leyden: 1639. 8vo. Two parts in one volume. A very good copy in full vellum with yapp edges. Green morocco letterpiece on spine. The 2nd of 3 pre 1700 Printings and the first to be bound after Polycraticus. John was a contemporary of Peter Abelard and this book by identifying adherents of different philosophical schools in Paris supplements what Abelard himself wrote on this subject. However it is its Irish context that offers special interest as no other papal document has exercised such a devastating effect upon the course of Irish History to match the bull Laudabiliter of Pope Hadrian IV. Indeed for centuries its very authenticity was questioned by Irish historians but according to a footnote to Father F X Martin�s essay on the coming of the Anglo Normans (A New History of Ireland, Volume II) �an important hitherto overlooked copy of Laudabiliter was recently located by Marie Therese Flanagan. Her