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Torre, Alfonso de la.

Visio(n) delectable dela philosophia y artes liberales: metaphisica: philosophia moral: (On leaf lxxviii :) Seville, Jacobo and Juan Cromberger, 1526. fol. 79 roman foliated leaves (of 80; leaf 80 missing) (quire count : a-i8, k1-7 [without the last white leaf]). With title woodcut and woodcut border composed of five parts, as well as 37 text woodcuts, each composed of two to four pieces. Contemporary, flexible vellum binding with handwritten spine title and (renewed) clasps. Palau 335324 (mentions one copy each in Madrid and Paris).Wilkinson, Iberian Books 18541 (with 17 library references). Clive Griffin, The Crombergers of Seville, p.66 and Appendix I, 261; Griffin lists 11 copies, one of which is incomplete and privately owned, all others are library copies. J.P.Wickersham Crawoford, The Vision Delectable of Alfonso de la Torre and Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed, in: PMLA, vol. 28, pp. 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". The beautiful woodcuts are each composed of different blocks - repeated several times - and in strong impressions. With exceptionally numerous contemporary handwritten marginalia by various hands (often trimmed in the margins). Eight-line Latin entry at the foot of the title page. The margins of the title page supplemented with old white paper and mounted in the fold on wide strips of paper. (Woodcut border somewhat damaged). Very little spotting throughout. Occasional wormholes in the fold. Endpapers renewed. - Of great rarity.

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