![DUNS SCOTUS, Johannes (c.1265-1308). Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum, edited by Thomas Penketh and Bartholomaeus Bellatus. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Joahnnes Manthen, [1476].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CSK/2004_CSK_05509_0060_000(091244).jpg?w=1)
Details
DUNS SCOTUS, Johannes (c.1265-1308). Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum, edited by Thomas Penketh and Bartholomaeus Bellatus. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Joahnnes Manthen, [1476].
Chancery 2° (305 x 212mm). Gothic type, double column, initial spaces with guide letters, rubricated. (Occasional light marginal staining, short marginal tear to last leaf.) 16th-century German blindtooled pigskin over wooden boards, flat spine with paper title label, yellow edges (without 2 clasps and metal furniture, lowest spine compartment repaired with modern pigskin, worn at extremities). Provenance: extensive early marginal annotations -- Villingen, the Conventual Franciscans (LCV inscription and LCV stamped on front board) -- Donaueschingen, Court Library (sale Sotheby's, July 1, 1994, lot 104).
FIRST EDITION. Part IV only of this four-part work, the other three parts having been issued between 1477 and 1478 by the same printer. The editor, Penketh, was 'commonly supposed in his time to have a unique knowledge' of the works of Duns Scotus (DNB p.747). A Provincial of the Augustinians in England and teacher of theology at Oxford, Penketh moved to Padua in 1474 where he taught theology and began amending editions of Duns Scotus. He returned to Oxford in 1477 and became a supporter of Richard III, preaching in his favour against the children of Edward IV. He died in 1487. HC *6416; BMC V, 227; GW 9073; Goff D-379.
Chancery 2° (305 x 212mm). Gothic type, double column, initial spaces with guide letters, rubricated. (Occasional light marginal staining, short marginal tear to last leaf.) 16th-century German blindtooled pigskin over wooden boards, flat spine with paper title label, yellow edges (without 2 clasps and metal furniture, lowest spine compartment repaired with modern pigskin, worn at extremities). Provenance: extensive early marginal annotations -- Villingen, the Conventual Franciscans (LCV inscription and LCV stamped on front board) -- Donaueschingen, Court Library (sale Sotheby's, July 1, 1994, lot 104).
FIRST EDITION. Part IV only of this four-part work, the other three parts having been issued between 1477 and 1478 by the same printer. The editor, Penketh, was 'commonly supposed in his time to have a unique knowledge' of the works of Duns Scotus (DNB p.747). A Provincial of the Augustinians in England and teacher of theology at Oxford, Penketh moved to Padua in 1474 where he taught theology and began amending editions of Duns Scotus. He returned to Oxford in 1477 and became a supporter of Richard III, preaching in his favour against the children of Edward IV. He died in 1487. HC *6416; BMC V, 227; GW 9073; Goff D-379.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium