DURANDUS DE SAINT-POURÇAIN (c. 1275-1332)

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Lot 91 | DURANDUS DE SAINT-POURÇAIN (c. 1275-1332)
DURANDUS DE SAINT-POURÇAIN (c. 1275-1332)

In quattuor Sententiarum libros. Edited by Jacques Merlin (c. 1480-1541) and Guillaume Petit (c. 1470-1536). Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, for himself and Jacques Petit, 13 November 1508. 

First edition of an important commentary on the Sentences of Lombard. A fine copy, edited by French humanists Jacques Merlin and Guillaume Petit and once owned by the 16th-century German theologian Hermann Heinrich Frey. Such was the fame of the French bishop and theologian Durandus of Saint-Pourçain in the Middle Ages that a Chair of Durandus rivalled that of Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus at some universities. His name was subsequently overshadowed, and until Merlin translated and edited Durandus’s In Quattuor Sententiarum Libros the work ‘lay hidden in dirty boxes or covetous libraries among writing half-consumed by decay’ and was ‘filled with errors that occurred during the passage of time because of copyists’ mistakes’ (Sandy). Frey, the early owner of this copy, was a preacher at Stuttgart before becoming Superintendent at Schweinfurt; among his publications was the popular Biblisch Thierbuch (Leipzig, 1594). The contemporary black and red underscoring and annotations on some pages, such as the note on a section about exorcism, are presumably in his hand. Renouard, Badius II, 410-411; Adam D-1178; G. Sandy, ‘Review of La France des Humanistes: Hellénistes I’, (2003).



Folio (303 x 204mm). With final blank, title in red and black, large woodcut of the Tree of Consanguinity and woodcut diagram of the Tree of Affinity, ornamental initials (very minor worming in preliminary quires, very occasional small stains, neat repair in one leaf not affecting text). Contemporary German half blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, title and shelfmark written on upper cover and spine, two brass catches with one clasp and remains of another (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Hermann Heinrich Frey (1549-1599; his ownership stamp on title, underlining and occasional annotation).





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