Libri sententiarum.

8vo: 459 [= 458] ff. (missing all before a1 + 10 ff. [Kk8, Ll1-8, Mm1] + all after Mm2; damp stain in bottom fore-edge corner, occasional soiling).

Contemp. panel-stamped calf, the so-called Spes binding, signed "I B", blind-ruled frame bordering panel stamp, spine with 4 raised bands, later marbled endpapers (repaired, somewhat rubbed; original lower endpaper preserved). Slipcase. Apart from the missing ff. a good copy.

Octavo ed. of the "Sententiarum libri quatuor" of the Paris bishop Peter Lombard (1100-1160), the "Master of the Sentences". Composed 1155-1158, these four books (on the Trinity, Creation and Sin, the Incarnation and the Virtues, the Sacraments and the Four Last Things) became the standard textbook of Catholic theology during the Middle Ages.
In a typical Leuven Renaissance binding, probably by Jacob Bathen. The panel represents a full-length figure of a female with her hands crossed on her breast. (See Goldschmidt, Gothic and Renaissance bookbindings, 179).
Ref. Cp. Adams P-907, P-909 and P-910.
Prov. Numerous contemp. marginal annotations in 2nd half. - Old notes on lower endpaper. - 18th-c. Luxembourg ownership entry at top of f. 1r.