Scriptum in primum librum Sentenciarum venerabilis inceptoris fratris Guilhelmi de Ockam Anglici veritatum i[n]quisitoris [pro]fundissimi ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349.

Contributor:

Fyner, Konrad, active 1472-1488, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

In primum librum Sententiarum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160. Sententiarum libri IV--Liber 1--Early works to 1800.

Peter Lombard.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Reichskartause Buxheim (stamp)

Carthusians (Buxheim, Schwaben, Germany) (stamp)

Physical Description:

468 unnumbered leaves (leaves [1] and 26 unnumbered pages) ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Title from explicit of text (leaf [2m]10r): Scriptum su[per] primum libru[m] sententiaru[m] Venerabilis inceptoris m[a]g[ist]ri wilhelmi de Ocka[m] Anglici

Fingerprint:

35go k.ei epb. enSp (C) 1483 (A)

Place of Publication:

[Urach] : [Konrad Fyner], Anno 1483.

Notes:

Title from inicipit of text on leaf [d]1r, which reads: Scriptum in primum librum Sentenciarum venerabilis inceptoris fratris Guilhelmi de Ockam Anglici veritatum i[n]quisitoris [pro]fundissimi In quo theoloÿca simul et arcium at[que] phi[losophi]e dogmata vs[que] ad principia resoluunt[ur] stilo clarissimo facili et a[per]to. Incipit feliciter.

Place of printing and printer's name from ISTC. "Ascribed by Proctor to Esslingen, by [BM 15th cent.] to Urach."--ISTC.

Imprint date from explicit on leaf [2m]10r, which reads: Explicit Scriptum su[per] primum libru[m] sententiaru[m] Venerabilis inceptoris m[a]g[ist]ri wilhelmi de Ocka[m] Anglici. Anno. 1483.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf [a]2r: 43 lines to a full column (column length throughout varies from 40-43 lines; cf GW); area of text: 285 x 204 mm.; col. width: 60 mm. Woodcut initials and initial spaces. Printed headlines; printed paragraph mark on leaf [d]1r. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords. "The printer introduced a system of textual reference by printing capitals at the top of columns, see C.F. Bühler, in G[uten]b[erg] J[ahr]b[uch] 1936 pp. 63-8"--ISTC.

Signatures: [a]¹⁰ [b]-[z]⁸ [A]-[Z]⁸ [2a]-[2l]⁸ [2m]¹⁰ (leaves [a]1 and [c]8 blanks).

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 285 x 204 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue; woodcut initials hand-colored (occasionally with colored penwork) in red, yellow, blue, green or brown or combinations of those colors.

Penn Libraries copy has largely illegible early ms. inscription at head of leaf [a]1r; occasional early ms. signature marks or evidence of such in brown ink in tail margin; modern ms. foliation in pencil on some leaves.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1901.

Penn Libraries copy has oval armorial stamp ("BIBL. BUXHEIM:") of Reichskartause Buxheim at foot of leaf [a]2r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary full blind-tooled leather over indented square-edge wooden boards; 3 raised bands on spine; ms. spine label ("Dupl."); evidence of 2 further labels, 1 each at head and foot of spine; 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates (1 catchplate intact); ms. fore-edge title ("Ocam[?] Su[per] primu[m] Sen[tentiarum]").

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves [o]1 and [o]8 wanting, each with facsimile replacement bound in its place and a German ms. note in pencil on the following page noting the absence of the original leaf.

Penn Libraries copy: binding and some leaves at beginning and end of volume wormed with occasional minor damage to text at end of volume; portion of leaf [Z]7 torn off near head margin with minor loss of text; leaf [a]3 torn and mended at fore-edge.

Cited in:

Goff O-14

BM 15th cent. II, p. 612 (IB.9005)

GW 11917

BSB-Ink. G-506

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 992

ISTC io00014000

OCLC:

5825319