Duns Scotus, Johannes

Quaestiones in Quattor Libros Sententiarum. Part 2. [Bound With] Quodlibeta

      Johannes de Colonia & Johann Manthen, 1478, 7 January & 1477, 7. Thomas Penketh, ed. Folio. 2 works in 1volume. a10, b-e8, f-g6, h-l8.10, m-mm10, n-p8, q10, r8, s6. Complete with blank. a10, b-e8, f6, ff6, g-k8, l-m10. [lacking b5, text leaf--with blank inserted incorrectly before b4 & m10 blank. ] 19th century vellum-backed paper-boards, fore-edge rubbed; title in old hand; contemporary ownership inscription of “ Brother Antonius d'Asralo OM” on blank before first t.p. and on last leaf of second work, also ownership inscription of Franciscan library at foot of first text leaf; some contemp. marginalia; a very fine crisp copy with ample margins. First initial letter in contemp. manuscript and decorated in red ink, a few leaves rubricated. Duns Scotus, John (c.1265&endash; 1308), Franciscan friar and theologian. tThe great commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard contains most of Scotus' important contributions to Medieval scholastic philosophy. These volumes are based on his Oxford Lectures and are sometimes referred to as the Opus Oxoniense. Each of the volumes stands alone. “ It was part of the duty of a regent master to conduct quodlibetal disputations, so called because ‘ they could be about any topib whatever (de quodlibet) and could be initiated by any member of the audience (a quodlibet). Scotus's quodlibetal Questiones were disputed in either Advent 1306 or Lent 1307. Scotus then revised the questions, completing the revision up through the last question, q12. ” [Cambridge Companion To Duns Scotus] “ Though less extensive in scope (than the commentary on the Sentences), Scotus' Quaestiones Quodlibetales are almost as important; they express his most mature thinking as regent master at Paris. ” [Ency. of Philosophy] Penketh, Thomas (d. 1487), Augustinian friar and theologian, describes himself in his theological notebook as of the Warrington convent in Lancashire, and evidently studied theology at Oxford before (probably immediately before) 1466; on the basis of his Oxford...