Two conjoined leaves, each with text in double column of 58 lines of a small university script, red and blue paraph marks, 2-line initials in same with penwork in contrasting colour, recovered from reuse on a later binding, and hence with cuts out of central gutter to expose sewing structures on that later book, trimmed at top (with losses to uppermost line there), some old mould-spotting, small tears and losses to edges, scuffs and stains, but quite legible, overall in fair and presentable condition, each leaf approximately 275 by 220mm
Durandus of St. Pourcain (c.?1275-1332/34) was a French Dominican, scholastic theologian, lecturer at the University of Paris (on Peter Lombard's Sentences), contemporary of Thomas Aquinas (and sometime critic of that figure), member of the household of Pope Clement V and later bishop (of Limoux, then Le Puy-en-Velay from 1318, and then in 1326 Meaux). His criticism of Thomas Aquinas was particularly bold, given that it happened at the height of Aquinas' popularity, and perhaps was only achievable through Durandus' strong links to the Avignon papacy. His commentary on the Sentences, in various forms, was catalogued by Friedrich Stegmüller in his Repertorium commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi (1947), as nos. 192-198, and three distinct versions were identified by J. Koch in his important study of the text (Durandus de S. Porciano, 1927)
