Fr. Giovanni de San Gimignano, Book of Examples and Analogie - Lot 225

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Fr. Giovanni de San Gimignano, Book of Examples and Analogie - Lot 225
Fr. Giovanni de San Gimignano, Book of Examples and Analogies (Գիրք օրինակաց եւ նմանութեանց) Armenian translation by Fr. Luc de Kharpert (Ղուկաս վարդաետ Խարբերդի) Venice, imp. Antonio Bortoli, 1750. In-4°. (xx) 1093 pages. Frontispiece (tempietto) and engraved plate (Assumption of the Virgin). Fine vignettes and initials. Wormholes mainly in margins. Handwritten colophon on last page. Bound in leather. Ornate spine. Ornate boards. Gilt and embossed edges. Clasp straps missing. Armenian translation of the best-known work by the Dominican friar John of San Gimignano (1260-1332), the Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum. This book, intended for preachers, is a collection of analogies to illustrate the preaching of abstract truths.
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