Author: Robert Grosseteste; Henry Richard Luard
Title: Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Quondam Lincolniensis Epistolae
Description: London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Leather. A volume of the letters by the medieval Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste, signed by the editor, Henry Richard Luard. Signed by the editor to the half-title.A collection of the letters written by Robert Grosseteste. Most of the letters were written between 1235 to 1253, whilst Grosseteste was the Bishop of Lincoln.Grosseteste was a scholastic philosopher, scientist, and theologian, who was called by A. C. Crombie "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition".Illustrated with a colour frontispiece.Letters are in Latin, preface is in English.Edited by Henry Richards Luard.Published in the series 'Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages&apos. In a quarter calf binding with cloth to the boards, with renewed endpapers. Externally, smart, with a few light marks to the boards. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down and to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few scattered spots. Editor's inscription to the half-title. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

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