MEDIAVILLA, Richardus de (1249-1308). Commentum super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 1477, c.1476-78].
Possible first edition of a commentary on Lombard’s sentences by Richard of Middleton. Goff dates this edition c.1476-1478 and Arnoldus’s other edition (M-424) c.1477, suggesting this might have priority. A crisp copy. HC(+Add) *10984; GW M22509; BMC V 206; BSB-Ink R-170; ISTC im00423000; Goff M-423.
Chancery folio (300 x 205mm). 320 leaves, double-column (faint waterstains in a few quires, small wormhole in first 2 leaves and last leaf). Contemporary quarter pigskin over wooden boards, pastedown using a fragment of leaf from a Sacramentary, in Latin, containing the text for the Feast of Sts Phillip and James [southern Germany, c.1100] (upper hinge cracked; rubbed, lacking clasps, leather torn at upper spine, a few wormholes). Provenance: Antonius of Bologna (early inscription) – Italy, Montefalcone (inscription by ‘F.F.’ dated 1492) – George Dunn of Wooley Hall (bookplate).
MEDIAVILLA, Richardus de (1249-1308). Commentum super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Venice: Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 1477, c.1476-78].
Possible first edition of a commentary on Lombard’s sentences by Richard of Middleton. Goff dates this edition c.1476-1478 and Arnoldus’s other edition (M-424) c.1477, suggesting this might have priority. A crisp copy. HC(+Add) *10984; GW M22509; BMC V 206; BSB-Ink R-170; ISTC im00423000; Goff M-423.
Chancery folio (300 x 205mm). 320 leaves, double-column (faint waterstains in a few quires, small wormhole in first 2 leaves and last leaf). Contemporary quarter pigskin over wooden boards, pastedown using a fragment of leaf from a Sacramentary, in Latin, containing the text for the Feast of Sts Phillip and James [southern Germany, c.1100] (upper hinge cracked; rubbed, lacking clasps, leather torn at upper spine, a few wormholes). Provenance: Antonius of Bologna (early inscription) – Italy, Montefalcone (inscription by ‘F.F.’ dated 1492) – George Dunn of Wooley Hall (bookplate).
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