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MAIORANIS (FRANCISCUS DE) Super primo libro sententiarum, Treviso, Michele Manzolo, 1476 image 1
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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 207

MAIORANIS (FRANCISCUS DE)
Super primo libro sententiarum, Treviso, Michele Manzolo, 1476

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MAIORANIS (FRANCISCUS DE)

Super primo libro sententiarum, 246 leaves (including 2 blanks), 48 lines, 2 columns, gothic type, initials supplied and rubricated throughout in alternate red and blue ink, including opening 7-line initial "C", leaves c5 and c6 misbound between i4 and i5, c5 repaired with old paper, contemporary Augsburg blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, by the Fächer frei binder, sides panelled with a border of repeated rose tool, and central latticed panel with pineapple and open fan tool, chased brass catchplates (inscribed "Maria") on the upper cover, clasps and leather straps, old paper lettering label on spine (traces of worming), extremities of spine and corners neatly restored [ISTC im00090000; BM VI 887; Goff M90; GW M22459] folio (298 x 195mm.), Treviso, Michele Manzolo, 1476

Footnotes

EDITIO PRINCEPS, IN A CONTEMPORARY AUGSBURG BINDING. A Franciscan monk, Franciscus de Maioranis (or Francis of Meyronnes, c.1285-after 1328) studied under Duns Scotus at the University of Paris, before preaching and teaching widely.

Provenance: Franciscan Convent of Heiligenkreutz, Vienna, ?seventeenth century inscription on title, press mark "VII.I.31" on front free endpaper; K.J. Hewett, bookplate inside lower cover.

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