DIONYSIUS the Areopagite pseudo Opera 3 parts in one vol

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DIONYSIUS, the Areopagite, pseudo-. Opera. Latin translations by Marsilio Ficino and Ambrogio Traversari with commentary by Hugh of St. Victor, Albertus Magnus, Robert Grosseteste, and others; edited by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples. Woodcut historiated title border and 16 text diagrams in second part. 7- and 8-line initials in colors and gold with the first initial extending into floral border on b1r, 4- and 5-line initials alternately in red and blue throughout. [8], 329, [1]; [4], 117, [1]; 67, [1] leaves. 3 parts in one volume. Folio, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards with brass catches, rebacked, lacks clasps; occasional browning, some early underscoring and marginalia, small hole in 2A3 touching a few letters, dampstaining in gutters towards end. (Strassburg: [Georg Husner], 1502-03)

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Collected edition of the late 5th-/early 6th-century writings on mystical theology attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite. "The aim of Dionysius' works is the union of the whole created order with God, which union is the final stage of a threefold process of purification, illumination, and perfection or union: a triad which has been vastly influential in the Christian mystical tradition . . . The supposed apostolic authority of these writings, added to their intrinsic value, caused them to exercise a profound influence on medieval theology" (ODCC). Hoffmann I, 578-79; Sarton I, 406.