Super quarto libro Sententiarum preclarum opus feliciter incipit

[Venice]: [Johannes Herbort de Seligenstadt] for Johannes de Colonia, Jenson et Socii, 1481. [309] leaves, lacking the preliminary blank. a-z¹⁰ (-a1), A-H¹⁰. Initials and rubrication in red and blue throughout, large illuminated initial on A2. Printer's device on colophon printed in red. Super chancery folio (315x210mm). Modern calf over wooden boards, panelled in blind, hinges and clasps. Small repairs in upper margin of the terminal two leaves. [309] leaves, lacking the preliminary blank. a-z¹⁰ (-a1), A-H¹⁰. Initials and rubrication in red and blue throughout, large illuminated initial on A2. Printer's device on colophon printed in red. Super chancery folio (315x210mm). Aquinas’ commentary on the fourth book of Lombard's theological compilation, written circa 1250, stands among “his first important theological writings” and is one of “the immediate forerunners of the Summa Theologica,” his masterpiece (Catholic Encyclopedia). Peter Lombard, a chief precursor to medieval scholasticism, wrote his Four Books of Sentences in the mid-12th century to deal “in an orderly fashion with the main themes of Christian theology… It eventually became the basic textbook for the teaching of theology in the universities … Therefore the works of major scholastic theologians usually include a Commentary on the Sentences” (González I:314-15). The work was printed as early as 1469 by Peter Schöffer in Mainz (Proctor 87). HC 1484; BMC 301; Goff T171; ISTC it00171000; Proctor, 4680; Pell 1071; Polain 3735