Live auction - Lot 884
[Paris imprint]
Epitome singularum distinctionum in quatuor libros Sententiarum, una cum distichis ad singula capita [...].
Paris, J. de Roigny, 1556
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
16mo: 152 ff. (soiled, wormtrack in 1st half touching some letters, tear in f. 106).
Old calf, gilt spine on 4 raised bands, decorative endpapers (worn, rebacked). Good copy with bottom edge uncut.
Extr. rare later edition of an abridgement for students by the Cologne theologian Arnold von Wesel (1484-1534) of the standard medieval philosophical and theological textbook of Petrus Lombardus (1100-1160). BP16 has no editions by J. de Roigny after 1550, and only 4 eds of this work in the period 1541-1550. Ref. Pettegree FB 54834 (1: Kraków). - Not in Adams, BP16, STC French (BL). Prov. 4-p. Latin text on front flylvs. - Cont. annotations in last part (ff. 113-). - Libr. stamp.