Sententiarum Libri IV: cum conclusionibus Henrici de Gorichem et problematibus S. Thomae articulisque Parisiensibus

Petrus, Lombardus; Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris; Heinrich von Gorkum

Basel : Nicolaus Kessler, 1488

[Incunable : Textus Sententiarum magistri Petri Lombardi] Basel: Nicolaus Kessler, 22 September 1488. Folio, 31 x 23 cm.  Bound in later 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Solid binding and cover. Gothic letter, printed in two columns,  55 lines. Woodcut calligraphic first initial on first leaf.  Rubricated lettering throughout, with opening initials drawn by hand in red.  Fine printer's device, white on background, on rear leaf.  281 leaves.  Lacking 2 blank leaves, 132 & 281.   [Collation: a10, b-i8/6, k-p6/8, q-s6, t8 (lacking t6 blank), A-Q8/6, Qr6 [sic], R6, S8 (lacking one blank in this signature), T6, V8]  Some worming.  Contemporary handwritten notes on rear blank leaf.  

The principal work of Peter Lombard, the 12th century philosopher and scholastic theologian.  The work is a collection of core statements of the church fathers first written circa 1150 A.D.  Lombard's work was widely read and became one of the primary work of medieval and renaissance theological scholarship.   Refs: Procter 7670.  Hain 10195.  BMC III, 766.  Goff, p. 491. Zehnacker 1825. Kesler.