DUNS SCOTUS (Johannes). Reportata super primum... - Lot 64 - Ader

DUNS SCOTUS (Johannes). Reportata super primum [-quartum] Sententiaru(m) fratris Johannis Duns Scoti... nunq(uam) antea impressa. Paris: Jean Granjon, 1517-1518. - 4 parts in one volume in-folio, 296 x 205: lxiii ff., (1 f.); lxxii ff., (2 ff.); lxiii ff.; lxxxvii ff., (1 f.). Brown calf on wooden ais, dishes decorated with interlaced rolls and cold fillets in frame, ribbed back decorated with cold fillets, leather and brass clasps, "REPOR SCO. "In ink on the gutter (period binding). Very beautiful edition of the commentaries of the Franciscan philosopher and theologian Johannes Duns Scotus (1265-1308) on the Four Books of Sentences by the philosopher and theologian Pierre Lombard (1095?-1160?). These sentences are a compilation of biblical texts dealing respectively with the Trinity, creation, Christ and the sacraments. Duns Scotus commented on them in his courses at Oxford and Paris at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries. There are several versions called Lectura, Ordinatio and, as here, Reportata, which correspond to student course notes. This edition is very important because it is presented as the first complete impression of the whole course given by Duns Scotus in Paris. It was published by the Scottish philosopher, historian and theologian John Major, or Jean Mair (1469-1550), on the basis of two manuscripts found in Parisian libraries, carefully reworked and edited by Jacques Rufin and Pierre du Sault. It is dedicated to François de Belval, guardian of the Friars Minor convent in Paris. A study of the text would show that these manuscripts must in fact date from a period after the courses given by the master. Beautiful printing in Gothic characters on two columns by Jean Granjon. Each part has its own title page and a particular foliotation. The first three were printed in 1517 and the last one in 1518. The titles have a beautiful woodcut frame with the royal coat of arms, including the mark of Gran