Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 570
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DUNS SCOTUS, JOHANNES. Scriptu[m] . . . su[per] s[e]c[un]do S[e]n[tent]iaru[m]. 208, [4] leaves, including final blank * Scriptum . . . super tertio sententiaru[m]. 154, [2] leaves. Together, Volumes 2 and 3 (of 4), bound in one. Titles in red and black within woodcut historiated architectural border incorporating vignette of the author at his desk. 8vo, contemporary calf, blind-tooled to panel design, rebacked retaining portion of original backstrip, cover corners restored; contents clean. (Lyon: Jean Crespin for Jacobus & Franciscus de Giunta, 1530)

Additional Details

Later edition of the author''s major work, his commentary on the standard early medieval theology textbook, the Sentences of Peter Lombard. DSB IV, 254-56; Sarton II, 382-83 and 967-70. With the armorial bookplate of the Irish author Richard Robert Madden, M.D. (1798-1886), and the stamp of the Pusey House Library at Oxford, formed from the collection of the clergyman and professor Edward B. Pusey (1800-82).