Libreria Antiquaria Le Colonne - Torino

2 estratti originali (Reprinted for private circulation from "Medievalia et Humanistica, fasc. XI, 195, fasc. VIII, 1954) in-8° (cm. 24,2), cartoncino edit. a graffe. 1) pp. 10 (da p. 33 a p. 43) con introduzioni storico-bibliogr. e fitti amplissimi testi in LATINO dalle suddette opere. 2) pp. 2 + 2 riproduzioni di miniature con parti di testo da due diversi codici manoscritti da British Museum e Lambeth Palace. in bianco e nero in 1 TAVOLA fuori testo. GROSSETESTE "c.?1175 - 9 October 1253) was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. Upon his death, he was almost universally revered as a saint in England, but attempts to procure a formal canonization failed. A. C. Crombie calls him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition" (wikipedia). I due estratti originali