INCUNABULA Armandus de Bellovisu DECLARATIONE Lyon 1500 NIKOLAUS WOLFF - - OUTSTANDING CONTEMPORARY RUBRICATION Start Price USD 1.00 Current Price USD 2,275.00 Time Left - Bid Count 23 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, August 23, 2008 End Time Tuesday, September 02, 2008 Location Olcott Beach, NY See more about 'INCUNABULA Armandus de Bellovisu DECLARATIONE Lyon 1500' Description [Incunabula] [ Dominican theology] [History of Printing] [Aristotle] [Saint Thomas Aquinas] [The Paris Stationers] Armandus de Bellovisu (Floruit 1326 - 1334 ): : De Declaratione Difficilium Terminorum Tam Theologiæ Quam Philosophiæ Ac Logicæ; O. O. (i.e. Lyon); 12 May, 1500; Nikolaus Wolff; Demi-Octavo, the untrimmed sheets barely measuring 3¾ inches by 5 inches - 9.5 by 13 cm; 202 (of 202) leaves, partly unpaginated: foliated regularly in eights: a - z8; π8; ¥8; (leaf ¥8 - the ultimate blank - reverse-folded, forming the original front pastedown); i.e. [1], II-CIII, CIII-CLXXXV, [17] leaves ; 80 (leaves 2-103 numbered II-CIII, 104-186 numbered CIII-CLXXXV); Fifth, and final incunable edition. In Good antiquarian condition, in early - probably contemporaneous vellum, recased in the 18th century, with the endleaves laminated to stiffen the binding; remains ties present; 33 lines, in single columns, in Latin, in 3 tiny Gothica Antiqua faces, contemporarily rubricated throughout in the style of the Paris Stationers' workshop; a half dozen larger initials in divided red and blue; approximately 400 initials painted in red; sentential capitals struck in red throughout; a few instances of scholarly marginalia in a fine fifteenth century hand. This copy with the Tabula Alphabetica present. One of the smallest books ever printed during the incunabular period, and among the rarest of all Lyonnaise printings. Copies worldwide located by WorldCat: 2, under OCLC Accession Number 47209886. Citations: Hain [Repertotium Bibliographicum, in quo Libri Omnes ab Arte Typographica Inventa usque ad Annum 1500. Typis Expressi Ordine Alphabetico vel Simpliciter Enumerantur vel Adcuratius Recensentur; Stuttgart; 1826-1838; Cottae and Renouard, publishers; Ludwig Hain, editor and compiler; ]: 1796. Proctor [An Index Of Early Printed Books In The British Museum, From The Invention Of Printing To The Year 1500, With Notes of Those in the Bodleian Library: London; 1898 – 1906; K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, publishers; Robert Proctor, compiler; Konrad Burger, editor]: 8677-A. .Polain (B) [Catalogue des Livres Imprimés au Quinzième Siècle des Bibliothèques de Belgique; Bruxelles; 1932; M.-Louis Polain, editor; La Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, publishers]: 313. Goff [Incunabula in American Libraries: A Third Census of Fifteenth-Century Books Recorded in North American Collections: New York; 1973; Kraus International, publishers; Frederick Goff, editor]: A - 1058. BMC [Catalogue Of Books Printed In The 15th Century, Now In The British Museum: London; 1908; The British Museum Society, publishers]: VIII, 330. IGI [Centro Nazionale d'Informazioni Bibliografiche: Indice Generale degli Incunaboli delle Biblioteche d'Italia: Rome; 1943; La Libreria della Stato, publishers; Enrichetta Valenziani, editor]: 858. Pell [Catalogue Général des Incunables des Bibliothèques Publiques de France; Paris, 1897; Marie Pellechet, editor]: 1272. GW [Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke; Leipzig; 1925; K. W. Hiersemann, publishers; Kommission für den Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, compilers]: 2504. BSB Ink: [Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog; Wiesbaden; 1988; L. Reichert, publishers]: A-733. CIBN [Bibliothèque Nationale: Catalogue des Incunables; Paris: 1981; Bibliothèque nationale, publishers]: A-563. Click either thumbnail for a full-sized view. Armandus de Bellovisu was a mediaeval Dominican theologian and one of Saint Thomas Aquinas' earliest disciples. He served as Master of the Sacred Palace under Pope John XXII. De Declaratione Difficilium Terminorum Tam Theologiæ Quam Philosophiæ Ac Logicæ is considered the earliest attempt to reconcile Aquinan Thought and Aristotelian Logic. Ralph M. McInerny (in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Stanford; 1999; Stanford University Press) notes: "Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that had obtained for centuries. This crisis flared up just as universities were being founded. Thomas, after early studies at Montecassino, moved on to the University of Naples, where he met members of the new Dominican Order. It was at Naples too that Thomas had his first extended contact with the new learning. When he joined the Dominican Order he went north to study with Albertus Magnus, author of a paraphrase of the Aristotelian corpus. Thomas completed his studies at the University of Paris, which had been formed out of the monastic schools on the Left Bank and the cathedral school at Notre Dame. In two stints as a regent master Thomas defended the mendicant orders and, of greater historical importance, countered both the Averroistic interpretations of Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy. The result was a new modus vivendi between faith and philosophy which survived until the rise of the new physics. Thomas's theological writings became regulative of the Catholic Church and his close textual commentaries on Aristotle represent a cultural resource which is now receiving increased recognition. The following account concentrates on Thomas the philosopher and presents him as fundamentally an Aristotelian." Historically - owed to the fact that Armandus was a student of Aquinas at a time when Aquinas studied with Albert The Great - Armandus de Bellovisu's De Declaratione Difficilium Terminorum Tam Theologiæ Quam Philosophiæ Ac Logicæ is undoubtedly among the most important attempts to bring Saint Thomas Aquinas' studies of Aristotelian logic - and their intersection with the Christian Faith - together in a single volume. We are pleased to offer this very rare edition of Armandus de Bellovisu's De Declaratione Difficilium Terminorum Tam Theologiæ Quam Philosophiæ Ac Logicæ for your consideration, and to ship this volume anywhere in the world, via insured carrier, at no additional cost. Residents of New York State are responsible for 8% Sales Tax. Place a Bid!