Lull | Ars magna generalis et ultima, Lyon, 1517, later marbled boards

Ramon Lull

Ars magna generalis et ultima quaruncunque artium et scientiarum assecutrix et clavigera... Lyon: Jacques Mareschal for Simon Vincent, 1517

4to (180 x 131mm.), title printed in red and black, woodcut printer's device on title-page and a smaller one on final verso, woodcut initials and diagrams, folding woodcut and letterpress plate, nineteenth-century marbled boards, title-page repaired in gutter, a2 repaired at foredge just touching a few letters, c8 repaired at foot, binding slightly rubbed

The second edition of Lull's influential treatise, his logical system to reveal the truth to encourage intercultural and, more importantly at the time, interreligious relations, in order to help with missionary work. It was composed between 1305 and 1308, and first printed in 1501.

LITERATURE

USTC 144684; von Gültlingen II, Mareschal 46

PROVENANCE

Josephi Trivellini Veneti; Dr Franz Jachimowicz [1]870, inscriptions at foot of title-page 

Dr Jachimowicz seems to have been a homoeopathic doctor in Vienna.