LULL Ramòn – BRUNO, Giordano. Opera ea quae ad inventam ab ipso Artem Universalem, Scientiarum Artiumque omnium brevi compendio.Argentinae (i.e Strassburg], Lazarus Zetzner, 1598
In-8vo, mm. 180x110; Legatura coeva piena pergamena, dorso a tre nervi con titolo manoscritto; pp. 24 nn., 992, 32 nn.; marca tipografica al Frontespizio, numerose figure xilografiche nel testo di soggetto astronomico e geometrico, 3 tavole schematiche fuori testo a fronte delle pp. 1, 44, 236. Leggere diffuse bruniture, traccia di gora nelle prime 200 pagine e nelle pagine finali, per il resto buona conservazione, esemplare genuino.
Rara prima edizione. Importante raccolta delle opere del Lull, cui sono aggiunti quattro trattati di Giordano Bruno e uno di Agrippa von Nettesheim. Fidora: “This edition, which was very influential - the young Leibniz, for instance, acquainted himself with Llull through this anthology-, contains several works by Llull himself as well as those Renaissance commentaries on his works by Agrippa of Netteshein, Giordano Bruno.” Le opere contenute in questa edizione sono: I. Ars Brevis; II. De Auditu Kabbalistico seu Kabbala; III. Duodecim principia Philosophiae Lullianae; IV. Dialectica seu Logica; V. Rethorica; VI. Ars Magna. Seguono i testi degli Interpretes della filosofia lulliana, ovvero i 4 trattati di Giordano Bruno e l’importante commento di Agrippa: VII. De Lulliano Specierum Scrutinio; VIII. De lampada combinatoria Lulliana; IX. De progressu logicae venationis; X De lampade venatoria logicorum; Agrippa von Nettesheim, XI. Commentaria sulla Ars Brevis Lulliana. In fine un'altra opera di Lull, XII. Articuli fidei. I quattro testi di Giordano Bruno furono inseriti per la prima volta in questa edizione, e poi ripubblicati in quelle successive senza essere mai menzionati nei titoli dei frontespizi, forse per non incorrere nella censura dei paesi cattolici. Le sette opere di Lull qui riunite costituiscono una sorta di enciclopedia delle scienze, dall’alchimia all’astronomia allo studio della Kabala, esposte in forma simbolica con schemi e metodi didattici innovativi: grazie a questa edizione Leibniz e molti suoi contemporanei conobbero Lull e Giordano Bruno. Blum: “In 1598 … the printer Lazarus Zetzner in Strasburg, published a great collection of the works by Raymond Lull and the most significant commentaries on Lullism, among them also some treatises by Bruno. Since then, Bruno's mnemonics was a basic component of all attempts made in the seventeenth century to set up a universal science on the basis of a theory of combinations interpreted in terms of Neo-Platonism. It was also Leibniz who was one of the first to assume similarities between Bruno's theory of the infinite and the Cartesian theory of vortices in an undetermined and infinite universe; Leibniz had the opportunity to read these treatises in his capacity as librarian of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel". Alexander Fidora, Peirce's Account of the Categories and Ramon Llull, 2007, p 181; Paul Richard Blum, Giordano Bruno: An Introduction, 2012, p. 110; Silvestrini-Firpo, Bibl. di Giordano Bruno, n. 1; Adams, n. 1694; Duveen, p. 371; Honeyman, n. 2068; Bolton, I, 1001; Dorbon, n. 2793; Menendez y Pelayo, Historia de los eterodoxos españoles, I, p. 517, n. 1. Ferguson, II, p. 49, cita l’edizione del 1609 ma non la presente.

8vo, mm. 180x110; Contemporary full vellum binding, manuscript title on the spine with 3 ribs; pp. 24 nn., 992, 32 nn.; printer’s device on Title page, many woodcut illustrations of astronomical and geometric subject, 3 tables out text facing pp. 1, 44, 236. Slight spread brownings, dampstain sign on the first 200 pages and in the finals, not sophisticated copy.
Rare first edition. Important collection of the most accredited works of Lull, whose four treatises of Bruno are added and one of Agrippa von Nettesheim.Fidora: “From another of Pierce's Lists we know that he possessed an important collection of Lullian and Lullist texts, namely the Renaissance edition by the famous Strasbourg editor Lazarus Zetzner: "Raymundi Lulli Opera ea quae ad adinventam ab ipso Artem universalem. pertinent" (printed first in 1598, then 1609, 1617 and, by his heirs, in 1651). This edition, which was very influential - the young Leibniz, for instance, acquainted himself with Llull through this anthology-, contains several works by Llull himself as well as those Renaissance commentaries on his works by Agrippa of Netteshein, Giordano Bruno.” Le opere contenute in questa edizione sono: I. Ars Brevis; II. De Auditu Kabbalistico seu Kabbala; III. Duodecim principia Philosophiae Lullianae; IV. Dialectica seu Logica; V. Rethorica; VI. Ars Magna.
Follow the texts of the Interpretes of the Lullian philosophy, ie the 4 treatises by Giordano Bruno and the important comment by Agrippa: VII. De Lulliano specierum Poll; VIII. De lamp combinatorial Lulliana; IX. De progressu logicae venationis; X De lamps hunting logicorum; Agrippa von Nettesheim, XI. Commentaria on Ars Brevis Lulliana. In the end another work of Lull, XII. Articuli fidei. The four texts of Giordano Bruno were included for the first time in this edition, and then republished in subsequent ones without ever being mentioned in the title pages of the securities, perhaps to avoid the censure of the Catholic countries.
Blum: “In 1598 … the printer Lazarus Zetzner in Strasburg, published a great collection of the works by Raymond Lull and the most significant commentaries on Lullism, among them also some treatises by Bruno. Since then, Bruno's mnemonics was a basic component of all attempts made in the seventeenth century to set up a universal science on the basis of a theory of combinations interpreted in terms of Neo-Platonism. It was also Leibniz who was one of the first to assume similarities between Bruno's theory of the infinite and the Cartesian theory of vortices in an undetermined and infinite universe; Leibniz had had the opportunity to read these treatises in his capacity as librarian of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel". Alexander Fidora, Peirce's Account of the Categories and Ramon Llull, 2007, p 181; Paul Richard Blum, Giordano Bruno: An Introduction, 2012, p. 110; Silvestrini-Firpo, Bibl. di Giordano Bruno, n. 1; Adams, n. 1694; Duveen, p. 371; Honeyman, n. 2068; Bolton, I, 1001; Dorbon, n. 2793; Menendez y Pelayo, Historia de los eterodoxos españoles, I, p. 517, n. 1. Ferguson, II, p. 49, cita l’edizione del 1609 ma non la presente.