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A discussion of interesting books from my current stock at www.jamesgraybookseller.com

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Pseudo-Augustine

601J Augustinus (pseudo) Jean de Fécamp 

601J Libellus meditationum Jean de Fécamp (early 11th century - 22 February 1079) Pseudo-Augustine; Saint Augustine 354-430; Bernard of Claravallensis 1090-1153; Peter Damian 1007-1072; Saint Anselm of Canterbury, 1033-1109; Vincent Ferrer 1350-1419; Maffeo Vegio 1407-1458; Pope Pius II,(Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini)... Continue Reading →

Three Pesudo-Augustine Collections  

1498, 1686, 1718. Each contain the Meditations, Soliloquia, and Manuall The contents of these three volumes from three different centuries all contain the three 'core' pseudo-Augustine texts ,the two latin editions have texts by Pseudo-Bernardus, Petrus Damiani, Anselm of Canterbury, N.... Continue Reading →

So…? What is that book? What is it about??

A lot of early books don't seem to give you much from a distance. That might be a major attraction for me, yet at book fairs a lot of book lovers are reluctant to look into or even peek at,... Continue Reading →

Saint Jerome & the medieval phenomenon of ‘Pious Fraud’* or Exitus acta probat.

Exitus acta probat.  OVID Heroides, II, 85.    "the outcome justifies the means." This week I have been working on a fifteenth-century manuscript which satisfies most of the qualities of a Pious Fraud .  "Pious fraud is used to describe fraud in religion. A... Continue Reading →

Saint Jerome & the medieval phenomenon of ‘Pious Fraud’* or Exitus acta probat.

Exitus acta probat.  OVID Heroides, II, 85.    "the outcome justifies the means." This week I have been working on a fifteenth-century manuscript which satisfies most of the qualities of a Pious Fraud .  "Pious fraud is used to describe fraud in religion. A... Continue Reading →

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