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Title: Super quarto libro Sententiarum Author: Aquinas, Thomas Place: Venice Publisher: [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Jenson et Socii Date: 8 July 1481 Description: a-z10, A-H10 (a1 blank, a2r text, H2v, printer's device printed in red, H3r table, H10r quire register, H10v blank). 310 leaves (including first blank). 56 lines and head-line. Two columns. Gothic type. Text opening with large manuscript initial on gold ground with floriated border, and a manuscript armorial device also with border in lower margin. Else unrubricated. (Folio) 12¼x8, modern half calf. Very nice copy with beautiful opening illumination. Nicolas Jenson had died in 1480. His types were used by Herbort, whose printing establishment was one of the largest in Europe at the time, until they reverted to the company of Johannes de Colonia et Nicolaus Jenson et Socii some time after November 1481 with the completion of the Duns Scotus. The text is Aquinas's commentary on Peter Lombard's "On the Sentences", an important theological text which was studied well into the Renaissance. Goff T-171. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding well-scuffed with front joint starting; pale soiling/spotting to a1 & a2, a1 & a10 remargined at gutter, tiny marginal wormholes to first few leaves, very short gutter margin wormhole visible in about 30 leaves in the middle, minor very pale brown spots in margins, about 10 leaves with some pale foxing, marginal brown spot to C10 & D1, some early marginalia, table annotated, table and register with dampstain and some bleeding to manuscript, final leaf with some edge-wear; still very good or better, nicely margined. Item number: 158700