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Lot 511

Sale 5213 - Rare Books and Manuscripts
Apr 4, 2013 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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1 vol.
Anselmus, Saint, Archibishop of Cantebury. Opuscula. [Basel : Johann Amerbach, not after 1497]. Complete with 208 leaves. 48 lines. 200 x 140mm - sheet size; text 155 x 110mm. 4to, contemp. blind-stamped calf; extremities worn, clasps defective, spine becoming detached. Rubricated initials throughout. Wormholes, loss to lower edge of a1, library inkstamp to d8, hz with lower corner missing not affecting text, q2 with loss to corner not affecting text. V4-end affected by worming, mostly at margins with some text affected. Moderate to light discoloration.
[Goff A-761]; 2nd collected ed. of the works of Saint Anselm of Canterbury.
Saint Anselm of Canterbury (c1033-1109); Benedictine monk, philosopher founder of scholasticism. Most remembered for developing the ontological argunment of the existence of God.

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