LULL, Ramon (c.1235-c.1315). Contemplationum Remundi. [and:] Libellus Blaquerne de amico et amato. Edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Éstaples. [Paris: André Bocard for Jean Petit 10 December 1505.] 2° (253 x 185mm). Woodcut device on title, six-line woodcut initials, double columns. 94 leaves. (Short tear to title, A2 torn without loss, occasional scattered spotting and soiling, a very few outer margins repaired, Q1-Q2 repaired with loss affecting the last few words of c. 30 lines, Q3-Q4 repaired with loss affecting half of outer columns.) 18th-century vellum, spine lettered in gilt and with date in manuscript, edges dyed red. Provenance: Benedictine College of St. Anselm (stamp on title and P4). FIRST EDITION of these two works of mystic theology, rare (Palau). Lull's mysticism is 'a remarkable blend' of three very disparate elements: Sufis, who, according to Lull, had 'words of love and brief examples that gave people great devotion'; troubadours, from whom he took the idea of unrequited love and poetic dialogue; and Franciscans, to whom he was spiritually close. 'His achievement was not only to be intensely aware of their separate qualities, but even more, by the force of his personal vision and literary gift, to be able to join them into a single path of extraordinary beauty and strength' (Bonner). Lull, a prolific polymath, also 'invented an "art of finding truth" which inspired Leibniz's dream of a universal algebra four centuries later' (DSB). Adams L-1699; Bonner Selected Works of Ramon Llull (1985); Brunet III, 1232; Palau 143785.
LULL, Ramon (c.1235-c.1315). Contemplationum Remundi. [and:] Libellus Blaquerne de amico et amato. Edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Éstaples. [Paris: André Bocard for Jean Petit 10 December 1505.] 2° (253 x 185mm). Woodcut device on title, six-line woodcut initials, double columns. 94 leaves. (Short tear to title, A2 torn without loss, occasional scattered spotting and soiling, a very few outer margins repaired, Q1-Q2 repaired with loss affecting the last few words of c. 30 lines, Q3-Q4 repaired with loss affecting half of outer columns.) 18th-century vellum, spine lettered in gilt and with date in manuscript, edges dyed red. Provenance: Benedictine College of St. Anselm (stamp on title and P4). FIRST EDITION of these two works of mystic theology, rare (Palau). Lull's mysticism is 'a remarkable blend' of three very disparate elements: Sufis, who, according to Lull, had 'words of love and brief examples that gave people great devotion'; troubadours, from whom he took the idea of unrequited love and poetic dialogue; and Franciscans, to whom he was spiritually close. 'His achievement was not only to be intensely aware of their separate qualities, but even more, by the force of his personal vision and literary gift, to be able to join them into a single path of extraordinary beauty and strength' (Bonner). Lull, a prolific polymath, also 'invented an "art of finding truth" which inspired Leibniz's dream of a universal algebra four centuries later' (DSB). Adams L-1699; Bonner Selected Works of Ramon Llull (1985); Brunet III, 1232; Palau 143785.
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