TORRE, ALFONSO DE LA

Vision deleitable de la filosofia y de las otras ciencias.

TORRE, ALFONSO DE LA.

Vision deleitable de la filosofia y de las otras ciencias. Printers: Juan Parix and Esteban Clebat. Toulouse, 1489. Folio size. 102 leaves (204 pages). Gothic lettering. Xylographic initials and provisional lower case letters for initials. 22 xylographic illustrations.

Incunabulum from 1489, belonging to the printing house of Juan Parix of Heidelberg and Enrique Clebat, in Toulouse, Languedoc.

The Castilian bachelor Alfonso de la Torre composed this essay towards 1440, requested by the prior of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Juan de Beamonte. The essay consists of two parts: in the first liberal arts are discussed, Metaphysics and Nature; and in the second moral philosophy and virtues and passions. Twenty two illustrations accompany each of the subjects addressed.

The author writes with learning and ingenuity, in a prose typical of its era. It is a text which had a clear editorial success, and was printed several times.

-Our edition: Valencia, 1996. Coedited with the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid.

-Edition of 3.000 copies, numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.

-Binding: Parchment on wooden board.

-Presentation case cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile and study in Spanish.

-Specially made laid paper.

-Study in Spanish carried out by Isabel Ruiz de Elvira (Professional from the Department of Incunabula and Rare Manuscripts of the Madrid National Library). Included in Bibliofilia Antigua III.