Apr 12, 2012 - Sale 2275

Sale 2275 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
RICARDUS DE MEDIA VILLA [i. e., Richard of Middleton]. In quartum sententiarum theologicarum Petri Lombardi . . . opus praeclarissimum. Title in red and black, within border formed by small individual woodcuts of saints and religious figures. [34], 290 leaves. Rubricated. 4to, contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, covers with concentric rules and ornamental rolls around center panel containing 3 vertically arranged ornamental tools, brass catches and clasps, top of spine restored; contents generally quite clean; ownership inscriptions of Laurentius Hylbrandus dated 1519 and another dated 1721 on title. [Lyon: Simon Vincent], (15 July 1512)

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Commentary on the on the fourth book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard by a 13th-century English Franciscan theologian and philosopher. Adams M1423; Shaaber R43 (5 copies in Great Britain); Sarton II, 951-52. Handsomely bound copy, exceptionally well preserved.