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PETRUS LOMBARDUS. Sententiarum libri IV. With commentary by St. Bonaventura. Volumes 1, 2, and 4 (of 5). [204]; [258] (of [260]); [272] leaves, including initial blank in Volume 4; Volume 2 lacks initial and final blanks. Gothic type. Volume 1 rubricated, and with 18-line initial P in blue with penwork decoration in red and green on a3r. Together, 3 volumes. Folio, 289x194 mm, 20th-century gilt-stamped vellum boards; scattered marginal foxing in Volume 1, heavy soiling in lower outer corner of first leaf in Volumes 1 and 4, varying browning and marginal dampstaining in Volumes 2 and 4, wormholes in 2G3-5 with text loss in Volume 2, repaired wormholes in blank outer margins toward end. (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger), [after 2 March 1491]
first edition of the commentary by Bonaventura, "his most extensive and systematic work" (OCDC), on Peter Lombard's Sentences, the standard early medieval compendium of Catholic theology. Hain-Copinger 3540; BMC II, 433; ISTC ip00486000.
