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BONAVENTURA, Saint. Questiones super IV libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi cum textu eiusdem, edited by J. Beckenhaub, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, [after 2 March 1491]. Parts 1 & 2 only (of 5). 2° (308 x 209mm). 464 leaves including the initial and final blank in part 2, 64 lines of commentary and headline, mostly double column, gothic letter, fine painted initial at beginning of each part, both predominantly blue with other colours and ornamental pen work, other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, capitals touched with red, a crisp copy in contemporary calf over wooden boards, almost all the leather worn away to leave a doeskin appearance, original clasp-holders. (New clasps and leather attachments, lacks bosses, heavily rubbed). Provenance: Imperial Monastery of St Maximin (16th-century ownership inscription on first page). HC 3540*; BMC II, 433; Goff P-486.
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