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ANSELMUS (1033-1109). Opera . Edited by Peter Danhauser. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 27 March, 1491. Chancery 2° (269 x 190mm). 181 leaves (of 182, without final blank). 45 lines and headline, double column, gothic types, initial spaces with printed guide-letters, rubricated. (Minor worming and staining, minor paper flaw at corner of p4.) Contemporary German blindtooled quarter pigskin over wooden boards (lacking clasps, lightly rubbed). Provenance : Georg Amersee, priest in Ausgburg diocese 1573-78 (inscription) -- Augsburg, Society of Jesus, 1726 inscription -- (bookplate removed).
ANSELMUS (1033-1109). Opera . Edited by Peter Danhauser. Nuremberg: Caspar Hochfeder, 27 March, 1491. Chancery 2° (269 x 190mm). 181 leaves (of 182, without final blank). 45 lines and headline, double column, gothic types, initial spaces with printed guide-letters, rubricated. (Minor worming and staining, minor paper flaw at corner of p4.) Contemporary German blindtooled quarter pigskin over wooden boards (lacking clasps, lightly rubbed). Provenance : Georg Amersee, priest in Ausgburg diocese 1573-78 (inscription) -- Augsburg, Society of Jesus, 1726 inscription -- (bookplate removed). FIRST EDITION of the works of St. Anselm, Bishop of Canterbury and first book printed by Hochfeder. St. Anselm was a celebrated divine and founder of scholastic theology. He studied under Lanfranc at Bec where he assumed the monastic habit (1060). He succeeded Lanfranc as Abbot (1078), and as Archbishop of Canterbury (1093). H *1134; BMC II,473 (IB. 8153); GW 2032; BSB-Ink. A-554; Bod-inc. A-303; Goff A-759.