1489 INCUNABULA by JOHANNIS DE GERSON antique VELLUM BINDING OPERA MORALIA

GERSON, JOHANNIS DE


SECUNDA PARS COMPLETENS OPERA MORALIA.

[Basel: Nicolaus Kesler]; 1489. 


Unfoliated.

A8 (without A2)- E8, F6-N6, O8, P6, Q8, R6, S8, T6, U8, X6-Y6, Z8, aA6-bB6, cC8, dD6, eD8, fF6, gG8, hH6-lL6 (last blank).

Text in Gothic type, with hand-drawn capitals in red and blue ink, some period manuscript marginal notes.

Dampstain to the fisrt about 1/4 of the leaves, generally good margins throughout the rest of the work.

Period vellum binding (restored), spine with raised bands.

Contains the second part of the complete works of the Parisian scholar Johannes Gerson, which deals with moral philosophy.

At the end of the volume, there is a dialogue between a Frenchman and an Englishman, contrasting scholasticism with mysticism.

ISTC ig00187000.

Small folio, size 8.5 by 12"

Text in Latin
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Jean Charlier de Gerson (13 December 1363 – 12 July 1429) was a French scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding light of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance. He was one of the first thinkers to develop what would later come to be called natural rights theory, and was also one of the first individuals to defend Joan of Arc and proclaim her supernatural vocation as authentic.

Aged fourteen, he left Gerson-lès-Barby to study at the college of Navarre in Paris under prominent clerics Gilles Deschamps, (Aegidius Campensis) and Pierre d'Ailly (Petrus de Alliaco), who became his life-long friend.
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