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BONAVENTURA, Saint. Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum. Edited by Thomas Penketh. [335] (of [336]) leaves; lacks the initial blank. Folio, 282x197 mm, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled leather over wooden boards, lacking catches and clasps, with vellum leaves from a 12th-century Latin liturgical manuscript as endleaves; several small wormholes and light dampstain in blank lower margin of opening leaves, otherwise a clean, wide-margined copy. Early stamp of the Franciscan monastery at Stroncone, Umbria, on a2r. (Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 1477)
One of 2 15th-century editions, both printed the same year, their priority undetermined. This is the first edited by the English theologian and philosopher Thomas Penketh (d. 1487), who was known in particular for producing the first scholarly editions of the principal works of Duns Scotus (see lot 18). Hain-Copinger 3538; GW 4659; BMC V, 254 (copy measuring 260x190 mm); Goff B873; ISTC ib00873000.
