Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DUNS SCOTUS, JOHANNES. Quaestiones quodlibetales. Edited by Thomas Penketh. [52] (of [54]) leaves; lacks 2 of the 3 blanks at the end. Gothic type. bound with his: Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Edited by Thomas Penketh and Bartholomaeus Bellatus. [130]; [82]; [58]; [139] (of [140]) leaves, including the 4 initial blanks; lacks the final blank in the fourth part. Together, 2 works in one volume. Rubricated throughout, and with 5 20-line initials with red penwork decoration (at the beginning of the first work and each of the 4 parts in the second). Folio, 410x285 mm, contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards with remnants of clasps, covers decorated with panel of intersecting diagonal double fillets filled in with Maria scroll, rosette, eagle, and stag tools, modern morocco lettering piece on spine, worn overall, lacking center- and cornerpieces and catches, numerous wormholes through front cover into opening leaves not impairing legibility; Newcastle upon Tyne Public Library bookplate and date due slip on front endpapers, their scattered unobtrusive rubberstamps in margins. wide-margined copy, generally quite clean internally. (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481; [14]81)

Additional Details

Second edition of the first work and third edition of the second, both printed in the same year by Koberger and frequently bound together. Hain-Copinger 6417, Hain 6435; BMC II, 419-20 (copy measuring 390x270 mm); GW 9074, 9069; Goff D380, D394; ISTC id00380000, id00394000.