Jacopo de Voragine, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et Quadragesimales Lyons: [Jean Bachelier and Pierre Bartelot], 8 Aug. 1499 $15,000 Quarto in eight s, 8 x 5.5 in. Three parts in the following order: Sermones de... Continue Reading →
Henricus de Herpf (c. 1410-1477) Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Speyer: Peter Drach, [after 17 January 1484, not after 1486] sold Folio: 31.4 x 21.5 cm. 428 leaves, 48 lines, two columns. Collation: “1”8, “2”10, a-m8, n6, o-p8,... Continue Reading →
Some how or another, it has turned out that S. Igantius' Spiritual Exercises has played a cornerstone in my intellectual /Spiritual development. In a way It is the first 'mystical' text I read (or for that matter had easy access to).... Continue Reading →
345G Over the last twenty years I have been lucky enough to have had and sold all of the "Wit's series" : Wits commonwealth, Published first in 1597, as the first in a series of which Mere’s "Palladis tamia"( I had... Continue Reading →
A few Blogs/Days ago I wrote about a 1644 Index Librorvm Prohibitorvm and I wrote " ‘collect them all, watch it grow…" http://wp.me/p3kzOR-O6. Well because of the blog, some one, an interested and interesting reader offered me one... I 'had' to... Continue Reading →
Lucretius, has always made me feel hopeful and some how more connected to the universe and less to the subjective problems we perceive. "Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all... Continue Reading →
If ideas were easy, everyone would have them. The "Poetic astronomy by the most renowned Hyginus, a most useful work," Is such an idea that everyone can have, there is nothing so available to everyone as the sky. In a... Continue Reading →
In 1980 I published my first poem in a non 'student edited" journal, of course I didn't ascribe my success to my University or even my Religion but such was 1980. Here is a class publication from the Jesuit College... Continue Reading →
It seems that in the seventeenth century the Jesuits are on the point of trying to negotiate the academic and scientific changes in the world outside of the Catholic Church and Church tradition. The Ratio Studiorum,which was a document to... Continue Reading →
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