Bonaventura  (Bonaventure)



Opuscula.

Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1495



2 volumes,

Chancery folio (283 x 196mm.)

 part I: 380 leaves, [*8] 2-46 a b8 c–f6.8 g h6 i–y8.6 z8 A–M6.8 N–Q6 R–Y8.6 Z8 AA6 BB8 CC DD6 EE8

part II: 370 leaves, 2A8 B C6 aa bb8 cc–qq6.8 rr–tt6 vv–zz8.62AA–QQ8.6 RR SS6 TT–YY8.6 ZZ8 Aaa–Eee6

 double column, 52 lines plus headline and foliations

"I-CCCLV" (I, fos a1-EE7), and "I-CCCXLIX" (II, fos 2A1-EEE6)

 gothic type, initial spaces, 4 woodcut illustrations,

a few contemporary marginal notes,

cancellation of lines of text, and nota signs (including maniculae) in brown ink throughout,

contemporary blind-stamped Italian sheep over wooden boards,

Size 8 by 11"

paper labels on spines,

two clasps, bindings worn and repaired,

lacking straps

Text in Latin


PROVENANCE

possibly the Franciscan Capuchins of the convent of Santa Margherita in Cortona, their late fifteenth-century inscriptions on title: "Iste liber fuit est et erit ad usum fratris Alexandri de Cortona [?]" (fols [*1r], 2A1r); "Iste liber pertinet ad locum sancte Margheritae de Cortona [--] / [--] fratris [Alexandri] [--]" (fos EE8v, EEE6v)


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Bonaventure, OFM (Italian: Bonaventura da Bagnoregio , Latin: Bonaventura de Balneoregio;
born Giovanni di Fidanza; 1221 – 15 July 1274)
was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.

The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he also served for a time as Bishop of Albano.
He was canonised on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V.
He is known as the "Seraphic Doctor" (Latin: Doctor Seraphicus).
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