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(MANUSCRIPT.) Petrus Lombardus. Sententiarum libri IV.manuscript in latin, written in gothic bastarda script in black ink with headings and sidenotes in red, 31 lines (except 33-46 lines in index), recto and verso, on at least 2 stocks of laid paper watermarked with Greek cross (one resembling Briquet 5546, "Prague 1447-59"). with four decorated divisional initials of 4 to 7 lines in colors and gold with foliate marginal extensions. 1- and 2-line initials and initial strokes in red. Ruled in brown throughout. [288] leaves. With 3 thong bookmarks and 3 vellum fore-edge tabs. 318x216 mm, contemporary blind-tooled leather over wooden boards with brass bosses, catches, and clasps, covers decorated with large panel of intersecting fillets filled in with small circular eagle, lily, star, and two-tailed mermaid stamps (cf. Kyriss workshops 184 and 185, both Bohemian), worn overall, raised bands and joints rubbed, small surface imperfection on front cover, small piece of leather missing from bottom edge; marginal fingersoiling at beginning, light dampstaining in upper outer corners through most of volume, most noticeable at very end, small wormtrail through blank upper outer corners in second half of volume. [Bohemia, dated 1463 at end of book 1]
complete and well-preserved manuscript of the sentences of peter lombard, the principal medieval textbook of theology, composed in the mid-12th century. "The book, which owed its success chiefly to its lucid arrangement, its comprehensiveness, and its absence of individuality, was commented upon by nearly all theologians of repute" (ODCC). While not uncommon institutionally, manuscripts of the Sentences infrequently appear at auction; a Central European example is particularly unusual.
