farfel_n06_003_397

397
Charles W. Treylen
Sept '93
3.75L = $5.63

Thomas Aquinas (b.1225 or 7 - died at Fossanuova, 1274.)
Scripta ad Haribaldum episcopum super quattor libros
Sententiarum
Basel: Nicolaus Kessler, 1492 f0 C4
Ref: Goff T-329 C 579 Pell 1062 Polain (B) 3737 Pr 7683
BMC III 770
Cop: HEHL, LC, Col UL OI. XIX XX / LI. IIII

154 leaves, the last blank. 2 col. 3a: 661 + headline
23(242)x158mm. a8 b-f ff g-p6 q8 r6; A-G0
Types: 140 title, headline of Prologue + headings; 70 text.
Capital spaces. The book + distinction - numbers in the
headlines are printed in Lombardic majuscules; smaller
Lombardic majuscules for distinction numbers in text.
-> now ascribed to Hanibaldus himself (Cardinal d. 1272)
rather than Th. Aquinas.

70 - small text type. Diamonded A + S, other letters
plain, save for slight decoration to stems of I + T and
upper stem of F. Used from 1491.
140 - smaller title + heading type; double-barred A, D, G, H,
M, N, O, P, S, V. Used from 1491.

N. Kessler of Bottwar - bachelor's degree Univ. of Basel 1471,
at first employed by B. Richel. Earliest dated book
Missale Basiliense, 29 March 1485. He was still
printing in 1510 + alive as late as 1319. (Benzig 1485-1509)
HEHL (54172) - rub. in red. - my leaf C4 (of 6) LI IIII / O.I. XIX
LI Book 4 IIII DI - I [inserted] Edicira omnia in festinatoe ne [end inserted]begins on A1 (of 6)
DI - L(50) ends on G1

bound with
H. 10196
Pr 7676
Goff P.492 (Kessler, 1489)