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BONAVENTURA, St . Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio and Theodorus de Reynsburch, 1477. Chancery folio, 275 x 200 mm. (10 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.), nineteenth-century English crimson hard-grain morocco, covers panelled in gilt and blind, spine gilt in six compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., joints and extremities rubbed, lacking first blank leaf, small loss to opening initial S from adhesive spot on facing flyleaf causing slight loss to a word on verso, 1 to 2 small wormholes through first 3 quires, marginal wormholes to last few quires, lower forecorner of fol. y10 cut away, scattered erasures by an early annotator obscuring a few letters, first leaf a trifle soiled, minor marginal dampstaining to first and last few leaves . Collation: a-l10 m8 8 n-p P q-t10 v8 x10 y-z8 aa12 bb-kk8 ll-mm6. 335 leaves (of 336, lacking a1 blank). Fol. a2 in the first state (cf. GW). Types: 2:150G (first words of sections); 1:77G (text). Double column, 50 lines, initial spaces with guide letters. Rubricated: large opening divided blue Lombard initial S with elaborate red filigree infilling and flourishing extending into the margins ( upper extension shaved ), alternating blue and red Lombard 2-line initials, paragraph marks in red; a few chapter headings and scattered marginal paragraph numbering and corrections supplied by the rubricator. HC (+ Add) 3538*;; Pellechet 2712 and 2712A; Polain (B) 800 & 800A (variant); IGI 1885; Proctor 4428; BMC V 254 (IB 20634); GW 4659; Goff B-578. Provenance : Abundant contemporary marginalia in red and brown ink, some apparently by the rubricator -- Two contemporary inscriptions on verso of last leaf, the first bleached out, the second partially obliterated: "Iste liber concessus est ad usum fratris F... ordinis minorum observantiae per... in christo fratrem Antonium de... eiusdem ordinis... -- Monastery of St. Nazaire of Navarre, seventeenth-century inscription on last verso, ink monogram on a2r and 3r -- Sir John H. Thorold, Syston Park and monogrammed bookplates -- William Henry Smith, armorial bookplate.