Lot 92
  • 92

Duns Scotus, Joannes

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi [edited by Thomas Penketh and Bartholomaeus Bellatus]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, [14]81
  • Paper
4 parts, part 1: 130 leaves, [a–c8 d6 e–h8 i6 k-l8 m-n6 o-p8 q–s6]; part II: [a-b8 c-d6 e8 f6 g–l8]; part III: [a8 b-c6 d-e8 f6 g-h8]; part IV: [a8 b–z6], double column, 71 lines plus headline, gothic type, 20-line initials at start of each book (the first with animals in the letter on a red penwork ground with marginal decoration), 4- to 8-line initials in red or blue, red initial strokes, paraphs and underlining, contemporary manuscript signatures (consecutive between parts), [a]2 slightly short and tipped in

Quodlibeta [edited by Thomas Penketh]. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481, 52 leaves, [a8 b–g6 h8], double column, 70-71 lines, gothic type, 20-line initial at beginning of text, 6-line initials in red or blue, red initial strokes, paraphs and underlining, contemporary manuscript signatures in blue ink



together 5 parts in one volume, Royal folio (416 x 284mm.), contemporary Nuremberg blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, numerous deckle edges, binding slightly rubbed, pigskin torn along spine and loose at head, spine defective at foot, lacking both clasps

Provenance

Georg Calixt (1586-1656), Protestant theologian of Helmstedt, who believed in a unified Christendom; Heinrich Rixner (1634-1692), of Helmstedt, with note on flyleaf "Ex Bibioth. Calixtina"; University of Göttingen (founded 1735), stamp on flyleaf together with sold stamp; "Presented to Father David OSF... P.L. September 8th 1855", inscription on flyleaf

Literature

Goff D380 & D394; HC 6417 & H 6435; BMC ii 419; BSB-Ink D-304 & D-319; Bod-inc D-167 & D-163; GW 9074 & 9069

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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Catalogue Note

A LARGE, CRISP AND CLEAN COPY.