Grammatica Rationis, Sive Institutiones Logicae by John Fell, bishop of Oxford
Grammatica Rationis, Sive Institutiones Logicae by John Fell, bishop of Oxford
Grammatica Rationis, Sive Institutiones Logicae by John Fell, bishop of Oxford
Grammatica Rationis, Sive Institutiones Logicae by John Fell, bishop of Oxford
Grammatica Rationis, Sive Institutiones Logicae by John Fell, bishop of Oxford

Grammatica Rationis, Sive Institutiones Logicae by John Fell, bishop of Oxford

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Grammatica Rationis, Sive Institutiones Logicae by Anon. [John Fell, Bishop of Oxford]

Publishing: 1673  Sheldoniano, Oxonii e theatro (Oxford)

Small octavo (5.5 × 3.5 inches). [Frontispiece], 256 pp. (leaf 189–190 torn, with loss of approximately two-thirds of the page). Copperplate engraved frontispiece and a double sided copperplate diagram at p. 60, which did not appear in any of the later editions. 

An excedingly rare first edition Oxford logic manual, printed at the Sheldonian Theatre in 1673, the earliest phase of Oxford University’s official press. OCLC records only one institutional holding of this edition. The Institutiones Logicae was among the most widely circulated handbooks of Aristotelian logic in the seventeenth century, setting out the foundations of reason and argument with chapters on categories, propositions, syllogisms, fallacies, and demonstration. Such manuals were central to the teaching of philosophy and theology across Protestant and Catholic universities.

The work was published anonymously and issued under the direction or authorship of John Fell (1625–1686), Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Christ Church, who founded the Sheldonian Theatre press and laid the foundations of Oxford University Press.

Condition: Bound in later full calf with three raised bands. Leaf 189–190 torn with loss of approximately two-thirds of the page. Frontispiece professionally repaired at gutter, torn along the edges with some corner loss not affecting the image. Small tear to lower corner of title page not affecting text. Final page numbered 156, a printer’s error for 256. Text block is well preserved overall in Very Good condition