HOLKOT, Robertus

Super librum sapientie

      Jacob de Pforczen (Jakob Wolff) Basel 1506 Contemporary blindtooled calf (scuffed)over wooden boards rebacked with with remnants of clasps; tools include a deer roll, decorative knots, and floral stamps; "R Holkot" stamped on front cover Folio . Handsomely printed early Basel edition of Robert Holcot's commentary on the Sentences (Sententiarum libri IV) of Peter Lombard (1100-1160). Robert Holcot (d. 1349), English Dominican theologian, who had studied and taught at the University of Oxford from c. 1326 to c. 1334, becoming master of theology there in 1332. "He was particularly famous for his commentaries on Scripture that compensated for the excessive subtleties of decadent scholasticism. His Postilla super librum Sapientiae, which, according to two Paris MSS, was written at Cambridge, ' ... made its author famous overnight and his fame held throughout the next two centuries' (Wey, 219). It brought together the traditional teaching of Scripture and a type of prehumanist study deriving from Richard of Bury and his circle" (New Cath. Enc. XII, p. 532) [12], CXCIII, [1 blank] leaves. Gothic letter; guide letters and spaces; few small round worm holes; some marginal annotations in a contemporary hand; top blank margin title-page repaired without loss. § Adams H 680