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Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum.

Accession number
PML 24648
Creator
Petrus, de Aquila, -1361.
Object title

Quaestiones super libros Sententiarum.

Published

Spirensis : ciuis Drach Petrus, 1480.

Description

[178] leaves ; 40.5 cm (fol)

Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from register incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r: Numerus et ordo questionu[m] in primu[m] sente[n]tiaru[m] magistri Petri de Aquila ordinis minorum secundu[m] ordine[m] distinctionum sub quibus co[n]tine[n]tur.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [22]/8r: Hunc studiose tibi gaudet cubisse libellum. Spirensis ciuis Drach Petrus arte sua. 1480 [Printer's mark]
Preface dated 1480 (leaf [1]/1v).
Printed in Drach's types 1:130G and 2:94G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-11⁸ 12¹⁰ 13-15⁸ 16⁶ 17-22⁸]: 178 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
2 columns, 60 lines and head-line.
On the Sententiae of Petrus Lombardus, according to the commentary of Joannes Duns Scotus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.7 x 28.5 cm.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (40.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports by an unidentified bindery. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves (with watermarks of a bull's head/cross/orb); decorative endbands. 2 clasps, 1 renewed.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Quaestiones super quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials (with starbust motif -- 4 dots with tails) and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, primary on first few leaves then sporadically throughout.
Provenance
Unidentified duplicate inscription: "dupl coll" (front pastedown); Ernest Naville (1816-1909), signature (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Nijhoff, July 1927.
Classification
Century
Department