Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
GORRIS, GUILLERMUS. Scotus pauperum. [292] leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 207x145 mm, modern vellum with calligraphic spine title in ink; insignificant repaired wormholes in opening leaves not impairing legibility, title rehinged, extensive contemporary marginalia; many outer and lower edges untrimmed. [Lyon: Guillaume Balsarin, circa 1487]

Additional Details

Second edition of a treatise on the commentary by Duns Scotus on the Sentences of Peter Lombard; the first was printed in 1486 at Toulouse. Reichling 197; GW 10960; BMC VIII, 277 (copy measuring 172x118 mm); Goff G324; ISTC ig00324000 (locating multiple copies in Europe, only the University of North Carolina copy in the U.S.).