Sup[er] primo libro sente[n]tiaru[m].

Accession number:

PML 17697

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Published:

Venetiis : p[er] magistru[m] Antoniu[m] de strata Cremone[n]sem, Anno domini 1486. die .21. Junii [21 June 1486].

Description:

[150] leaves ; 33.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf a4r): Incipit scriptu[m] fancti Thome de Aquino ordinis predicato[rum] sup[er] primo libro sente[n]tiaru[m]: cu[m] textu[m] singulis distinctionibus anteposito.
Colophon (leaf t5r): Explicit scriptu[m] sancti Thome de quino ordi[ni]s predicatoru[m] sup[er] primo libro sente[n]tiaru[m] singulis distionctio[n]ib[us] antepositis. Impressum Venetiis p[er] magistru[m] Antoniu[m] de strata Cremone[n]sem. Anno domini 1486. die .21. Junii.
Printed in types 1:73G, 2:150G, and 6:92G.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-r⁸ s-t⁶: 150 leaves, leaves a1 and t6 blank.
Paper format: (Super-?)chancery folio.
PML copy on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 22.8 cm., trimmed.
PML copy with leaf a1 (blank) partially cut away.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-filleted dark blue goatskin over paper boards (33.5 x 24 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Roger de Coverly. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Super primo libro Sententiarum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminationed initial and armorial (Venonese style?) (leaf a4r); rubricated, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Verona, Augustinians of the Lateran, St. Leonhard de Monte Donico, inscription of donation of Celso Maphei (leaf a1v); illuminated armorinal, cut out and patched (leaf a4r); Henry White (1821/22-1900), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes, tipped in (front fly leaf)--also lent to Caxton Celebration exhibition of 1877, with label (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's London, 21 April 1902, lot 2161, to Ellis for £101; Bernard Quaritch, with collation note by F.S. Ferguson (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, June 1911.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books