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BONAVENTURA (Saint, ca 1217-1274). Commentarius in primum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. [Strassburg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), ca 1474-79].
Royal 2o (402 x 282 mm). Collation: [1-310 48 56 6-810 94 10-1210 138 14-1610 178 1810 194]. 168 leaves, the first leaf and final two leaves blank. 62 lines, double column. Gothic type 2:93. One 9-line rubricated initial P on fo. 2r, 2- to 4-line Lombard initials supplied in red; chapter numbers, paragraph marks, capital strokes in red. (Some minor dampstaining to lower margin of 13/4 and on 18/9-10.)
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, probably from the Kyriss shop 35, Weissenau Prämonstratenser: the covers panelled with triple fillets with repeated cross-hatched quatrefoil tools (Schwenke-Sammlung Viereck 307:34), lamb tool (Schwenke-Sammlung 154:74), four evangelists, lettered rolls, two brass clasps (some wormholes).
Provenance: some early marginalia -- HILPRAND BRANDENBURG (d.1514; his hand-colored woodcut bookplate, contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation: "Liber Carusiensium in Buchhaim prope Memmingen proveniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco, donato sacerdote, continens Bonaventuram super primo libro sententiarum. Oretur pro eo et pro quibus desideravit") -- Buxheim, Charterhouse (contents note, donation inscription, armorial library stamp inside initial "P" on fo. 2r, shelfmark C.239 on spine label -- Graf von Ostein -- Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim (sale, Carl Förster, Munich, 1883) -- purchased from Rosenbach by Countess Doheny 5 July 1944 -- donated to SMS 1944.
FIRST EDITION of Saint Bonaventure's most important work. It is a commentary on Peter Lombard's famous theological handbook, the 'Sententiae,' a collection of opinions of the Church Fathers. The Commentarius, which extensively discusses the subject of God and the trinity, became a fundamental work in shaping Christian doctrine. Ohly ascribes the Printer of 'Henricus Arimensis' type 2 to Georg Reyser.
A binding from the same workshop on a copy of pseudo-Bonaventura's Sermones (Strassburg: Georg Husner, 1496), also from the library of Hilprand Brandenburg, was in the Helmut N. Friedlaender Library (sold, Christie's New York, 23 April 1001, lot 30). This copy contains two extra blank leaves in the final quire which are conjugate with the two final index leaves. According to the BM and GW collations, the final quire contains only the two index leaves as a conjugate pair. In addition, at the end of this copy is bound another pair of conjugate blank leaves with same daisy watermark as text and rear pastedown. In the Eggestein Marchensinus (see lot 39) a similar variation occurs: the first quire contains two additional blanks which are conjugate with two printed preliminaries (which in other copies form a conjugate pair).
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE TALL COPY. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: ISTC lists only 5 other copies in America.
BMC I, 80 (IC. 894); BSB Ink. B-657; CIBN B-625; H *3536; GW 4656; Pr 324; Goff B-870.
Royal 2o (402 x 282 mm). Collation: [1-310 48 56 6-810 94 10-1210 138 14-1610 178 1810 194]. 168 leaves, the first leaf and final two leaves blank. 62 lines, double column. Gothic type 2:93. One 9-line rubricated initial P on fo. 2r, 2- to 4-line Lombard initials supplied in red; chapter numbers, paragraph marks, capital strokes in red. (Some minor dampstaining to lower margin of 13/4 and on 18/9-10.)
Binding: Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, probably from the Kyriss shop 35, Weissenau Prämonstratenser: the covers panelled with triple fillets with repeated cross-hatched quatrefoil tools (Schwenke-Sammlung Viereck 307:34), lamb tool (Schwenke-Sammlung 154:74), four evangelists, lettered rolls, two brass clasps (some wormholes).
Provenance: some early marginalia -- HILPRAND BRANDENBURG (d.1514; his hand-colored woodcut bookplate, contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation: "Liber Carusiensium in Buchhaim prope Memmingen proveniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco, donato sacerdote, continens Bonaventuram super primo libro sententiarum. Oretur pro eo et pro quibus desideravit") -- Buxheim, Charterhouse (contents note, donation inscription, armorial library stamp inside initial "P" on fo. 2r, shelfmark C.239 on spine label -- Graf von Ostein -- Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim (sale, Carl Förster, Munich, 1883) -- purchased from Rosenbach by Countess Doheny 5 July 1944 -- donated to SMS 1944.
FIRST EDITION of Saint Bonaventure's most important work. It is a commentary on Peter Lombard's famous theological handbook, the 'Sententiae,' a collection of opinions of the Church Fathers. The Commentarius, which extensively discusses the subject of God and the trinity, became a fundamental work in shaping Christian doctrine. Ohly ascribes the Printer of 'Henricus Arimensis' type 2 to Georg Reyser.
A binding from the same workshop on a copy of pseudo-Bonaventura's Sermones (Strassburg: Georg Husner, 1496), also from the library of Hilprand Brandenburg, was in the Helmut N. Friedlaender Library (sold, Christie's New York, 23 April 1001, lot 30). This copy contains two extra blank leaves in the final quire which are conjugate with the two final index leaves. According to the BM and GW collations, the final quire contains only the two index leaves as a conjugate pair. In addition, at the end of this copy is bound another pair of conjugate blank leaves with same daisy watermark as text and rear pastedown. In the Eggestein Marchensinus (see lot 39) a similar variation occurs: the first quire contains two additional blanks which are conjugate with two printed preliminaries (which in other copies form a conjugate pair).
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE TALL COPY. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: ISTC lists only 5 other copies in America.
BMC I, 80 (IC. 894); BSB Ink. B-657; CIBN B-625; H *3536; GW 4656; Pr 324; Goff B-870.