Lectura fratris pauli scriptoris ordinis minoru[m] de observa[n]tia qua[m] edidit declara[n]do subtilissimas doctoris subtilis sententias circa Magistrum in primo libro.

Accession number: 
PML 33969
Author: 
Scriptoris, Paulus, approximately 1460-1505
Published: 
Tübingen : Johann Otmar, 24 March 1498.
Description: 
Clxxxiii, [15] leaves ; 28 x 20 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1937.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r): Lectura fratris pauli scriptoris ordinis minoru[m] de observa[n]tia qua[m] edidit declara[n]do subtilissimas doctoris subtilis sententias circa Magistrum in primo libro.
Colophon (leaf z7r): Explicit exactas expositio et subtilis subtilissima[rum] sententia[rum] quas doctor subtilis in p[ri]mu[m] librum suum circa magistru[m] Petrum Lumbardum in unum [con]gessit. ordinaria lectura ordinarie facta in [con]ventu fratrum mino[rum] in alma universitate Tuiving[e]n[se]. ubi et impressa est per huius artis gnaru[m] Magistru[m] Johanne[m] Ottmar. Anno salutis M.cccc.xcviii. xxiiii. die Martii.
Printed in types 7:170(152)G, 9:92G, and 11:66G.
Collation: a-z⁸; [1]⁸ [2]⁶: 198 leaves, leaves z8 and [1]/1 blank. Quire [1] signed 1-4 and quire [2] signed a-c.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary French blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports for Louis XII of France (bee and rosette devices); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Contemporary plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands (modern). Evidence of 4 nail holes on rear board suggest former chained binding.
Variant Title: 

Lectura in Johannem Duns Scotum super libro primo Sententiarum.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations.

Provenance: 
Louis XII (1462-1515), King of France, binding; inscription, abraded, 16th/17th century (leaf a2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, May 1937.
Classification: 
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