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Title: PRODROMUS AD OPERA OMNIA S.BONAVENTURAE… Agens de ejus vita, doctrina, et scriptis editis ac ineditis,Recensque inter vetustos Codices Manuscriptos inventis in Libros octo tributus,
Description: Pinted by Bassanensi, Gio. Battista Remondiniani 1767 titlepage vignette [130 x 88mm of Christ as shepherd in a landscape] + handsome head- & tail-pieces + historiated initial capitals. . lg. folio buckram spined boards with large title along spine [head & foot of spine bit rubbed] All edges sprinkled in red & blue dye but top edge v.much darker ] titlepage printed in red and black + [xxiv = = Dedication & Preface & contents] 775 numbered in columns. [each page having two columns including the index & errata] There are some damp marks, mainly marginal to the top gutter margin throughout and 3 tiny holes to margins but not touching the text and one intermittant worm track to the top centimeter of the book just at the gutter. Neither of these faults impede the reading of the text nor is the paper weakened.There are two round purple library stamps to the free endpaper and the titlepage and a stamp "House Library Pantasaph" on the endpaper also. *The work of Saint Bonaventure was a founder of the Franciscan Order and a leading light of the 13th century. He was influenced by St.Augustin and Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas although St.Bonadventure inclined more to the mystical than those three.

Keywords: Theology


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