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Torre, Alfonso de la.

Lot 617
25.09.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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€ 9 000
AuctioneerAuktionshaus Kiefer
Event locationGermany, Pforzheim
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Lot 617 | Torre, Alfonso de la.
Torre, Alfonso de la.
Visio(n) delectable dela philosophia y artes liberales: metaphisica: philosophia moral.: (Auf Blatt lxxviii :) Sevilla, Jacobo und Juan Cromberger, 1526. Fol.79 röm. Foliierte Bl. (Lagenzählung : a-i8, k1-7 [ohne das letzte weisse Blatt]). Mit Titelholzschnitt und aus fünf Teilen zusammengesetzter Holzschnittbordüre sowie 37 Textholzschnitten, jeweils aus zwei bis vier Stücken zusammengesetzt. Zeitgenössischer, flexibler Pergamentband mit handgeschriebenem Rückentitel und (erneuerten) Schliessbändern.
Palau 335324 (nennt je ein Exemplar in Madrid und Paris).Wilkinson, Iberian Books 18541 (mit 17 Bibliotheksnachweisen). Clive Griffin, The Crombergers of Seville, S.66 und Appendix I, 261; Griffin führt 11 Exemplare auf, davon ein unkomplettes in Privatbesitz, alle übrigen sind Bibliotheksexemplare. J.P.Wickersham Crawoford, The Vision Delectable of Alfonso de la Torre and Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed, in: PMLA, vol. 28, S. 188f. : "The Vision Delectable was composed by Alfonso de la Torre, probably between the years 1430 and 1440, at the request of don Juan de Beamonte, for the instruction of the young Prince Carlos of Viana. This work, which gained its author the epithet of el gran filosofo among his contemporaries, was published about the year 1480 and subsequently appeared in several Castilian editions... The book treats in allegorical form the Seven Liberal Arts of the medieval curriculum, and also the chief problems of scholastic philosophy, theology, ethics, and politics. While meditating upon his work, the author falls into a deep sleep, and sees in a vision the threatened destruction of the world. Suddenly the maiden, Gramatica, appears and also the child Entendimiento, whom she received and instructs in the mysteries of her art. The first six chapters of the First Part describe Entendimiento's ascent of the mountain and his visits to the dwellings of Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astrology, thus completing his instruction in the Seven Liberal Arts. I have shown in another article 1 that Alfonso de la Torre was indebted to the Anticlaudianus of Alanus de Insulis for most, of his allegorical material, and that the chapters on grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, and music are derived from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae. The chapter on logic is borrowed from Al-Ghazzai's treatise on that subject included in his Makasid al-Faldsifa, which was translated into Latin about the middle of the twelfth century by Dominicus Gundisalvi. I wish to show here that chapters eight to nineteen of the First Part, which discuss the most important questions of scholastic philosophy and theology, are derived from the Moreh Nebuchim or Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides, the greatest of all Jewish philosophers". Die schönen Holzschnitte jeweils aus verschiedenen - mehrfach wiederholten - Stöcken zusammengesetzt und in kräftigen Abzügen. Mit ausserordentlich zahlreichen zeitgenössischen handschriftlichen Marginalien von verschiedenen Händen (häufig am Rand beschnitten). Auf dem Titelblatt am Fuss achtzeiliger lateinischer Eintrag. Das Titelblatt an den Rändern alt mit weissem Papier ergänzt und im Falz auf breiten Papierstreifen montiert. (Holzschnittbordüre etwas lädiert). Durchgehend, aber nur sehr wenig fleckig. Im Falz hin und wieder Wurmfrassspuren. Vorsätze erneuert. - Von grosser Seltenheit.
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