BONAVENTURA (1221-1274). Breviloquium. [Leipzig : Gregorius Böttiger (Werman), about 1495]. ISTC locates only 17 copies of this edition; according to online records, only one copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 50 years.
Chancery 4to (198 x 142 mm). A–P⁶. 89 leaves (of 90, lacking a1 title), 32 lines. Capital spaces with printed guide letters, some initials, capital strokes, and paragraph marks in red. (C2 with upper margin repair just touching a few letters, a few other leaves with old marginal paper repairs, small wormtrack to the first few leaves just touching letters, final leaf with inkburn with old repairs to upper margin and touching a few letters.) 16th-century vellum (soiling, lacking ties). Provenance: Contemporary annotation on first text leaf; some marginalia in an early hand.
The Breviloquium was one of Bonaventure's principal theological works, first published either in Nuremberg by Johann Sensenschmidt of Eger in 1472 or by Arnold Ther Hoernen in Cologne, ca 1472. ISTC locates only 17 copies of this edition, of which only one is located in the United States. According to online records, only one copy of this edition of the Breviloquium has sold at auction in the last 50 years. Goff B859; Döring-Fuchs B-298; GW 4655; ISTC ib00859000.