Nicolas Cusanus Nicholas Cusa (8 results)

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Woodcut borders and printer's device to title, large and small woodcut initials throughout, lightly rubricated. [2], 76 ff. Collation AA10, BB-GG8, HH-II6,KK8. 1 vols. Small folio. Theological work by Nicolas de Cusa or Nicholas Cusanus (1401-1464), an early advocate for church reform (and thus a forerunner of the sixteenth-century reformers). Similarly, his philosophical inquiries broke with scholasticism and were praised by Giordano Bruno, who called him "divus Cusanus"; and through Bruno had an influence on Spinoza and Leibniz. "Cusanus indulged in many theologico-physical speculations concerning the form of the universe and the possibility of its infinity" (PMM). A three-volume Opera was printed the same in Paris at the same press, from a different setting of type, per Adams C3130; BP16 seems to group the two printings indistinguishably, but BnF RES-Z-280 (3) has foliation identical to this copy. Two vellum leaves are preserved at front: the first (backed with paper) simply listing the title in ink in an early hand, with a old pencil bookseller's note referring to Spencer catalogue, priced £10/0/0; the second has a Marian monastic ownership note concluding: Servanti benedictio tollenti maledictio At the back is a leaf from the 1498 Missale Coloniense, in two columns, fully rubricated with a nice stylized initial, with blue and red fish fin and scales for the E in Ego autem sicut oliva. The Missale was printed by Hermann Bungart in Cologne (GW M24324) and copies are held in 18 locations, many of which are defective or fragmentary; the leaf has repairs at outer margins and the verso is is a bit paste soiled. PMM 45 (for the 3-volume edition printed in Paris in the same year; Renouard, 2:356-357; Adams C3132 (Cambridge/Emmanuel). OCLC 69401011(Leiden); BP16 102579 Old dark leather boards tooled in blind. Heavily worn. Two vellum flyleaves preserved at front, with an early ownership note in ink. Library reback with buckram spine. Bookplates, ink and blind stamps of General Theological Seminary. Bound at back is a rubricated leaf CI from a 1498 Missale Coloniense formerly used as binding waste Woodcut borders and printer's device to title, large and small woodcut initials throughout, lightly rubricated. [2], 76 ff. Collation AA10, BB-GG8, HH-II6,KK8. 1 vols. Small folio.