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Stimulus divini amoris Sancti Bonaventurae.

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Rare edition of the Stimulus divini amoris, a popular medieval devotional treatise long attributed to St Bonaventure but in fact composed by the thirteenth-century Franciscan Giacomo da Milano.

The text comprises the so-called Stimulus minor, which was first published in Italian in Venice by Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio and his brothers in 1521. It is divided into three parts, the first on Christ’s Passion, the second on prayer, and the third on contemplation. Another version known as the Stimulus maior, an expanded version of Giacomo’s text, also enjoyed wide circulation.

EDIT16 CNCE 32869; USTC 802726. Only one copy traced in the UK (Bodleian) and one in the US (Folger).

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