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PETRUS LOMBARDUS Sententiarum libri IV, [Freiburg im Breisgau, Kilianus Fischer, or Basel, Johann Amerbach, c.1491]
29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,167.50 inc. premium
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PETRUS LOMBARDUS
Sententiarum libri IV, 255 leaves (of 256, lacking final blank O6), 55 lines, double column, gothic type, ink ornamentation to the title, rubricated with capital initials supplied in alternate red and blue, occasional early ink notations to margins, tear to title-page repaired with tape on verso, occasional wormholes (mostly marginal but some touching text), light marginal damp-staining to some leaves, early blind-stamped pigskin, clasps missing, small losses to head and foot of spine, worn [ISTC ip00494000; BMC III 694; Goff P494; GW M32492], folio (310 x 210mm.), [Freiburg im Breisgau, Kilianus Fischer, or Basel, Johann Amerbach, c.1491]
Footnotes
Early incunable edition of Sententiarum libri IV, the major work by the scholastic theologian Petrus Lombardus (1095-1160), Bishop of Paris and professor at the cathedral school of Notre Dame. The Sententiarum was first printed at Strasbourg in 1468, whereupon it became the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities.

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