Incunabula - Petrus Lombardus' Sententiarum Libri IV - Nuremberg: Koberger, 1500

Description

INCUNABULA OF PETRUS LOMBARDUS’
SENTENTIARUM LIBRI IV
PUBLISHED BY ANTON KOBERGER IN NUREMBERG IN 1500
Author:
Lombardus, Petrus (also known as Peter Lombard).
Title:
Sententiarum Libri IV
(Commentary by St. Bonaventura and others and the Tables by Johannes Beckenhaub).
Format:
Incunabula.
Published:
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1500.
Description:
a.) Parts I and II only of IV and the Tables.
b.) Collation: I: a-s8 (lacking final blank), II: A-Z8 Q8, and Tables: A-C8 D6 E-K8 L6 (lacking final blank) with a total of 420 leaves.
c.) Double column with 80 lines each.
d.) Initial spaces.
e.) Beautifully bound in 19th century half calf with a manuscript title to the spine in compartments.
f.) 12 by 8.25 inches.
g.) Fine condition with old manuscript notes and drawings of hands and faces throughout the text and on the endpapers; minor spotting and staining to the boards, endpapers, and to the first and last few pages; and minor dampstaining to the last few pages.
h.) Third Koberger edition.
THE MAGNUM OPUS OF THE CELEBRATED ITALIAN THEOLOGIAN AND BISHOP OF PARIS, PETRUS LOMBARDUS, ONE OF THE GREATEST UNIVERSITY TEXTS THAT REMAINED FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE STUDY OF THEOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE AGES, MORE COMMENTARIES WERE WRITTEN ON THIS CHRISTIAN LITERARY WORK THAN ANY OTHER EXCEPT THE BIBLE
Notes:
The present volume is a substantial and handsome remnant of the magnum opus of the celebrated Italian theologian and Bishop of Paris, Petrus Lombardus (1096-1160).  This work consists of theological questions posed by Lombardus divided into four books: the first book considers God and the doctrine of the Trinity, the second concerns the Creation, the third deals with Christ and the Christian religion, and the fourth comprises questions on religious and moral duties.  There is an additional volume of tables compiled by the editor, Johann Beckenhub. In the preliminaries to the Sentences, Beckenhub has included correspondence between himself and Nicolaus Tinctoris, a theologian from Bamberg.
It was one of the greatest university texts that remained fundamentally important for the study of theology throughout the Middle Ages.  More commentaries were written on this Christian literary work than any other, except for the Bible itself, from the 13th to the 16th centuries.  Three other copies recently sold for ,750 in April 2001, ,273 in December 2004, and ,250 in July 2017 at Christie’s.