Fr. Giovanni de San Gimignano, Book of Examples and Analogie - Lot 224

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Fr. Giovanni de San Gimignano, Book of Examples and Analogie - Lot 224
Fr. Giovanni de San Gimignano, Book of Examples and Analogies (Գիրք օրինակաց եւ նմանութեանց) Translation into Armenian by Fr. Luc de Kharpert (Ղուկաս վարդաետ Խարբերդի) Venice, imp. Antonio Bortoli, 1750. In-4°. (xx) 1093 pages. Frontispiece (a tempietto) and engraved plate (Assumption of the Virgin). Fine vignettes and initials. A few wormholes mainly, the last 60 leaves slightly detached and stained. Bound in leather. Ornate boards. Gilt and embossed edges, spine torn, boards scratched, clasps missing. Armenian translation of the best-known work of the Dominican friar John of San Gimignano (1260-1332), the Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum. This book, for the use of preachers, is a collection of analogies capable of illustrating the preaching of abstract truths that are sometimes too subtle for the common people.
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