Petrus Lombardus [Peter Lombard]. Henricus de Gorichen, c...

Textus Sententiarum cum conclusionibus ac titlis questionu(m) sancti Thome Articulis q(ue) Parisien[sibus] et in quibus mag(iste)r co(mmun)iter no(n) tenet[ur]. [icluding: Tituli quaestionum sancti Thomae super quattuor libros Sententiarum; Articuli in Anglia et Parisiis condemnati.]

      Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1489, 29 November. Folio. a10, b-i 8.6, k-p 6.8, q-s6, t8, A-Q8.6, Qr6, R-V6.8. Complete. 279 ff. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pigskin; spine banded, over wood boards, lower outer corners have loss of leather; lacks clasps; edges red; bookplate and blind stamps of Auburn Theological Seminary, old de-acquistion stamp of Gymnasial Bibliotek zu Koeln on a2; old dealer's entry of this copy pasted to front endleaf dated 1924; some minor pinworm holes; some marginal dampstains, some extensive early marginalia in red (faded) and brown inks; remnants of tabs; some rubrication. Kessler's device above colophon. Scarce edition of Lombard.Peter Lombard: Theologian, b. at Novara (or perhaps Lumello), Italy, about 1100; d. about 1160-64. He studied first at Bologna, later on at Reims and Paris."The "Sentences" ("Quatuor libri Sententiarum"). It is this theological work above all that made the name of Peter Lombard famous, and gives him a special place in the history of theology in the Middle Ages. Henceforth he is called the "Magister Sententiarum", or simply the "Magister". The work is divided into four books. In a long series of questions it covers the whole body of theological doctrine and unites it in a systematized whole. Towards the thirteenth century, the various books were divided into distinctiones (an old Latin word that first meant a pause in reading, then a division into chapters), though the author had done nothing more than to have the questions follow one another; in the manuscripts, these questions do not always bear the same title.The first book treats of God and the Blessed Trinity, of God's attributes, of Providence, of predestination, and of evil; the second, of the creation, the work of the six days, the angels, the demons, the fall, grace, and sin; the third, of the Incarnation, the Redemption, the virtues, and the Ten Commandments; the fourth, of the sacraments in general, the seven sacraments in particular, and the four last things, death, judgment, hell, and heaven. The "Book of Sentences" was written about 1150.... He has no desire to make Christian doctrine a matter for controversy after the manner of the "garruli ratiocinatores" against whom he has to defend himself. But he has no hesitation in exposing in a reasoned way the different points of doctrine: it is but the method followed with still greater success and depth by St. Thomas. He makes full use of the Bible and the Fathers, but he never goes to the point of refusing reason its due rôle. It is here that the works of the School of St. Victor are especially serviceable to him: he borrows considerably from Hugo's "De Sacramentis", as well as from the "Summa Sententiarum", which, though not written by Hugo, is very much indebted to him. In addition to the foregoing, mention must be made of Abelard, Gratian, Ivo of Chartres, and Alger of Liège as the chief sources of the "Liber Sententiarum"." [CE] Goff P492 ; H 10196* ; Pell Ms 9179 ; Zehnacker 1826 ; Polain(B) 3121 ; IDL 3665 ; IBP 4343 ; ; Voull(B) 526 ; Schmitt I 526 ; Voull(Trier) 227 ; Leuze(Isny) 22 ; Wiegrefe pp.61-62 ; Hubay(Augsburg) 1626 ; Hubay ; Sack(Freiburg) 2798 ; Hummel-Wilhelmi 508 ; Borm 2110 ; Finger 798 ; Oates 2815 ; Pr 7676 ; BMC III 768 ; BSB-Ink P-385. ISTC ip00492000.