PETRUS LOMBARDUS (ca.1100-1160). Sententiarum libri IV cum conclusionibus Henrici Gorichen et problematibus S. Thomae articulisque Parisiensibus. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 18 February 1492.

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PETRUS LOMBARDUS (ca.1100-1160). Sententiarum libri IV cum conclusionibus Henrici Gorichen et problematibus S. Thomae articulisque Parisiensibus. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 18 February 1492.

Chancery 2° (305x214mm). Collation: a-r s t6 (a1r title, a1v blank, a2r prologue, a2v tabula of book I, a4v text); A-Q8.6 (A1r tabula of book III, A2r text, Q6v device (Weil 40), colophon); R6 S8 (articles pronounced in error by English and Parisian faculties); 2R6 2S8 (2R1r tabula, 2S8 blank). 265 (of 266, without blank 2S8) leaves. 54-55 lines and headline; double column. Type: 1:180G (title and section incipits), 2:82aG (text), 4:93G (headings), 6:64G (commentary and marginalia), printed guide-letters. 8- to 9-line initials in red and blue intertwined opening each book and on a2r, other initials (3-5-line), capital strokes and underlining in red. (Some light dampstaining, small wormholes in first and final quires affecting a few letters only, small tears not affecting text in title, extreme margins slightly frayed in first and final quires.) Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, blindstamped, evidence of 2 fore-edge clasps, (rubbed, darkened, repaired in calf, light stain on rear cover); stamps not in Kyriss/Schwenke-Sammlung. Provenance: early inscriptions on title including J. Raph. Heugele, and Andreas Episcopus G.

The Klotz copy has the variants as noted in BMC, which agree with Hain (and Basel UB Inc.683), including the different title and the additions of two quires signed R and S containing the articles pronounced in error by English and Parisian university faculties. H *10197; BMC III, 770 (IB. 37633); Goff P-495; IGI 7644; van der Haegen, Kesler 28

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