Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts
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PETRUS LOMBARDUS
Sententiarum libri IV. Henricus de Gorichem: Conclusiones. Thomas Aquinas: Tituli quaestionum, Articuli Parisiis. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 16 December 1489
Chancery folio (295 x 209mm.), 256 leaves, a-z [et] [con] [rum] aa–dd8 ee6 ff10, double column, 50 lines plus headline, gothic type, 4- to 7-line initial spaces with printed guides, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, later vellum, m2 with small marginal tear, occasional light foxing, lacking 2 pairs of ties
Peter Lombard's Sententiae were written between 1148 and 1158, and are here accompanied by the commentary of Henricus de Gorichem (died 1431). There is an additional preface by the chancellor of the University of Paris, Etienne Tempier (died 1279), decrying the errors made by students at the university which lead to heresy; in 1277 he had issued a list of 219 doctrines that were considered heretical.
LITERATURE:
ISTC ip00493000
PROVENANCE:
Frater Antonius de Bovasius, Order of Minims of San Francesco di Paola (and Provincial of the General Chapter of Genoa in 1710), inscription on title-page; Biblioteca Giuliari, armorial bookplate; sale, Sotheby's, 11 June 2002, lot 35
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