[COEUR DE PHILOSOPHIE]. - Lot 145

Lot n° 145
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[COEUR DE PHILOSOPHIE]. - Lot 145
[COEUR DE PHILOSOPHIE]. S'ensuyt le cueur de philosophie conte-nant plusieurs de-mandes et questions proposées par le saige Placides au philosophe Tymeo / et les respon-ces cotenuz en icelluy. Avec le traictié de lespe-re du monde et le compost et kalendrier touchant le cours du soleil et de la lune, des festes fixes et le bissexte. Le tout figure. Paris, Philippe Lenoir, (1533). In-4 in small square in-8 format. (6) ff -CXXVI ff. Well-executed pastiche soft vellum with laces (slight general oxidation of the paper, a few scattered stains, some (slight general oxidation of the paper, a few scattered stains, a few rare and small old handwritten marks or period annotations, discreet angular restoration to the first 2 ff., seems to be missing fI and fIIII). Rare, richly illustrated Gothic edition, dated 1533 by BnF (Moreau). A kind of popular encyclopedia, both almanac and medical or esoteric manual, indicated "newly" in the colophon as based on a 1504 edition of the dialogue between Placides and Timeo, attributed to Jean Bonnet. Considered one of the first "philosophical" texts in Old French. Here enlarged with an "Espe-re du Monde" section from Johannes de Sacro Bosco's De Sphera Mundi and a translation of Arianus' Computus manualis (Moreau/Renouard IV, 638). Only one copy in the CCFr (Lille). Title page printed in red and black with a large woodcut figure of Aristotle/Philosophy and a large sieve lettering; a large woodcut figure supposed to represent Philip the Fair at his court with the address of Lenoir, à l'enseigne de la Roze blanche courônee, printed in red and black, on the verso of the last table leaf. Numerous handsome in-text woodcuts in various formats, most of them on astronomy or palmistry: planetary movements, eclipses, zodiac figures, hands illustrated with mnemonics for remembering calendar features. Numerous sieve lettering, sometimes with figures. Bechtel, C-408.
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