[Sententiarum libri IV. Liber 4 : Comm. Bonaventura / Johannes Beckenhub, ed.]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.

Contributor:

Beckenhub, Johann, approximately 1440-

Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sententiarum libri IV. Liber 4

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Clasps (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Penniman, James Hosmer, 1860-1931 (bookplate) (donor)

Penniman, Maria Hosmer (honoree)

Fürstpropstei Ellwangen (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

272 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Caption title (leaf a2r): Sancti bonaue[n]ture doctoris deuotissimi super quartu[m] li. sen. disputata

Fingerprint:

j.a- atre doi- adna (C) 1491 (Q) v.4

Place of Publication:

[Nuremberg] : [Anton Koberger], [after 2 Mar. 1491]

Notes:

Text of liber 4 of Peter Lombard's Sentences with the commentary by St. Bonaventure; edited by Johannes Beckenhub.

Title from Goff.

Imprint from ISTC, based on information from the prefatory matter to Liber 1. Koberger is identified as the printer in a laudatory poem by Beckenhub ("Quo libri impressor Nurnberge Anthonius ipse Koberger tendat post sua fata precor ..."); the epistle of Nicolaus Tinctor to Beckenhub which follows the poem is dated at end: 1491. mensis marcij die s[e]c[und]o.

Chancery folio. "The text of each distinctio ... is printed with side-notes on the inner margin and gloss on the outer margin and below, and is followed by the quaestiones of Bonaventura in 2 columns."--BM 15th cent. Leaf a2r (printed in double columns): 64 lines to a full column, plus headline and printed marginalia; area of text: 227 (239) x 243 (149) mm.; col. width: 68 mm. Initial spaces, some with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-z⁶ A-S⁶ T-V⁸ X⁶ (leaf a1 blank).

"Ordo questionu[m] diui Bonaue[n]ture in quartum librum Sententiarum.": Leaves X1r-X4r.

Rubrice diui Bonauenture in quartum librum Sententiarum.": Leaves X4r-X6r.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 269 x 190 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials, paragraph marks and underlines supplied in red; one large colored and illuminated initial with floriate extensions supplied in red, yellow, green and blue on leaf a2r.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. notes and underlines in brown ink in text; early ms. manicule in brown ink on leaf l5r; modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown; ms. shelf-mark ("VII.D.6.") in brown ink on back pastedown.

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. James H. Penniman in honor of his mother, Maria Hosmer Penniman, and formerly housed in the Maria Hosmer Penniman Library of Education.

Penn Libraries copy has the armorial bookplate of James Hosmer Penniman affixed to front pastedown; early ms. ownership inscription ("Ex Bibliotheca aulica R[everen]d[issi]mi & Ill[ustrissi]mi Principis Elvacensis") of the court library of the Fürstpropstei Ellwangen at head of leaf a2r.

Penn Libraries copy has remains of paper slip with bookseller's printed description of another work by St. Bonaventure affixed to back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full early blind-tooled pig(?) over indented, angled-edge wooden boards; 4 raised bands on spine; ms. label with title and place and date of imprint on spine; ms. label with place and date of imprint at foot of spine; evidence of ms. at head of spine; 2 leather and metal clasps (1 intact) with metal catchplates; all edges blue.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf a1 (blank) wanting.

Cited in:

Goff P-486

BM 15th cent. II, p. 433 (IB.7406)

GW M32527

BN cat. des incun. B-622

BSB-Ink. P-387

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 714

ISTC ip00486000

Contains:

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Commentaria in quatuor libros Sententiarum Magistri Petri Lombardi. Liber 4.

OCLC:

857913874