Anselm, Saint. Sancti Anselmi Ex Beccensi Abbate Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi. Opera Omnia nec non Eadmeri Monachi Cantuariensis Historia Novorum et alia opuscula: Labore ac studio D. Gabielis Gerberon... Venice: Typis Josephi Coronae, 1744
Two volumes, folio., 12], xl, 484; xxiv, 366, [2], 243, [1] pp., Engraved frontisportrait in Volume I, title-page of Volume I in black and red. Woodcut headbands, tail-pieces and initial letters. Text in double columns., Contemporary stiff vellum with gilt brown calf labels., Extremities a bit rubbed, circular library stamp on half-title of Volume I and title-page of Volume II. Some light dampstaining and browning, mostly marginal. A very good set.
First Venice edition of the Gabriel Gerberon editing of AnselmÕs works, first published in Paris in 1675., Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was born in Aosta, in Piedmont. After study in Burgundy and France, he entered the Benedictine order and became prior and later abbot of Bec. He succeeded his teacher Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093. A much admired theologian and philosopher who has been called the father of scholasticism, Anselm is best known his ontological argument for the existence of God, advanced in his Proslogion (1077-78). He stood strongly against anti-intellectualism, insisting that rational analysis of the Christian faith did not necessarily lead to scepticism. Instead, he believed that intelligent study and discussion led to a better understanding of that faith and could make it stronger. He was canonized in 1494 and named Doctor of the Church in 1726.
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