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16th c. book. ANSELME (saint). D. Anselmi Cantuariensis...

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[16th c. book]. ANSELME (saint). D. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, theologorum omnium sui temporis facile principis neminique eorum qui post eum fuerunt... Venetiis, ad signum spei, 1549. Fort in-4, [12]-432 f., fragmentary and roughly repaired old vellum soft cover, modern laces (old sign. scratched and washed from title causing hole and wetness, some ff. browned, angular wetness to very last f.). Commentary by St. Anselm of Canterbury on the Epistles of St. Paul. At least part of this edition is still the subject of controversy and has been attributed to Hervé de Déols, or Hervé de Bourg-Dieu (Le Mans, c. 1080 - Déols, 1150), a Benedictine exegete and contemporary of Saint Anselm. (Edit16, CNCE22806).