THOMAS AQUINAS (ca 1225-1274, Saint). Super quarto libro Sententiarum . Venice: [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Jenson et Socii, 24th June 1481. Super-chancery 2 o (308 x 211mm). Collation : a-z A-H 1 0 (a1 blank, a2r text, H2v colophon, printer's device printed in red [Kristeller 237], H3r table, H10r quire register, H10v blank). 310 leaves (including first blank). 56 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 5:150 (head-lines), 6:74 (text), 9:140 (headings) and 68 (sheet E4). Initial-spaces. Rubricated: large manuscript initial at opening with floriated border, Lombard initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, four finely drawn pointing fingers in margins of s1-2. (First blank [a1] soiled, H10 partly separated along fold, some minor marginal worming in the first quire, occasional pale mostly marginal staining, heaviest in quires A-B and H [final], occasional light soiling at extreme upper margin, otherwise generally crisp and clean.) Binding : Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, perhaps an Erfurt binding, covers panelled with intersecting quadruple fillets, compartments filled with square lion and large rosette tools (apparently unrecorded), two brass fore-edge catches (one clasp present), early vellum reinforcing strips visible (hinges cracked). Provenance : some early inscriptions on a1 and marginalia on g1v -- Bolzano, Franciscans (inscription on a2r) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 16 April 1985. A FINE, CRISP COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Herbort's establishment was one of the largest in Europe at the time, with all of his work for the consituted firm of Johannes de Colonia et Nicolaus Jensen et Socii executed with Jensonian types (they had become their property upon Jenson's death). Herbort's connection with the Company evidently ceased with the completion of the Duns Scotus of November 1481, after which the types reverted to the Company. One sheet only [E4] of the Thomas uses a type closely resembling one used by Joannes Rubeus. Thomas's text is a commentary on Peter Lombard's "On the Sentences," the basis for theological study in virtually every center of learning throughout Europe, extending well into the Renaissance. HC * 1484; BMC V, 301 (IB. 21541); Pr 4680; Goff T-171.
THOMAS AQUINAS (ca 1225-1274, Saint). Super quarto libro Sententiarum . Venice: [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Jenson et Socii, 24th June 1481. Super-chancery 2 o (308 x 211mm). Collation : a-z A-H 1 0 (a1 blank, a2r text, H2v colophon, printer's device printed in red [Kristeller 237], H3r table, H10r quire register, H10v blank). 310 leaves (including first blank). 56 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 5:150 (head-lines), 6:74 (text), 9:140 (headings) and 68 (sheet E4). Initial-spaces. Rubricated: large manuscript initial at opening with floriated border, Lombard initials and paragraph marks supplied in red, four finely drawn pointing fingers in margins of s1-2. (First blank [a1] soiled, H10 partly separated along fold, some minor marginal worming in the first quire, occasional pale mostly marginal staining, heaviest in quires A-B and H [final], occasional light soiling at extreme upper margin, otherwise generally crisp and clean.) Binding : Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, perhaps an Erfurt binding, covers panelled with intersecting quadruple fillets, compartments filled with square lion and large rosette tools (apparently unrecorded), two brass fore-edge catches (one clasp present), early vellum reinforcing strips visible (hinges cracked). Provenance : some early inscriptions on a1 and marginalia on g1v -- Bolzano, Franciscans (inscription on a2r) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 16 April 1985. A FINE, CRISP COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Herbort's establishment was one of the largest in Europe at the time, with all of his work for the consituted firm of Johannes de Colonia et Nicolaus Jensen et Socii executed with Jensonian types (they had become their property upon Jenson's death). Herbort's connection with the Company evidently ceased with the completion of the Duns Scotus of November 1481, after which the types reverted to the Company. One sheet only [E4] of the Thomas uses a type closely resembling one used by Joannes Rubeus. Thomas's text is a commentary on Peter Lombard's "On the Sentences," the basis for theological study in virtually every center of learning throughout Europe, extending well into the Renaissance. HC * 1484; BMC V, 301 (IB. 21541); Pr 4680; Goff T-171.
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