Lullius, Raymundus (c.1235-1315)

Art miserieux de Raymond Lulle, ou science généralle. Praxis argumentandi. Illustrated with a few pen-drawn diagrams, and with a small engraved portrait of Lully laid down and used as a fronispiece. The 'Art misterieux' is apparently copied from a 15th cent. MS. It has a colophon: 'Decouuer par le R[everend] pere/Eustache de Brie Recollet et/fini de descrire par J Perrin/Chanoine de Ste Marthe ce 15/7bre 1455 à Tharascon'. Below, the signature in pencil 'Frederick Hockley 1827', whose name also appears on the recto and verso of the portrait, and on the first leaf.

Mid 17th Century

1 volume 77 ll. 12mo. 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 cm. 19th cent. diced calf gilt binding. Text within red rules.

Purchased 1935.

On a fly-leaf 'W[illia]m Alex[ande]r Aytoun' [1817-1909].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).