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The Four Books of Sentences

Peter Lombard

This book is in Latin.

The standard textbook of medieval theology, on which every master from Alexander of Hales to Bonaventure and Aquinas lectured: the Trinity, creation and sin, the Incarnation, virtues and commandments, the sacraments and the last things, in 182 distinctions. The Latin is the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 192, 1855), from a machine-corrected OCR, not the Quaracchi (1916) or Grottaferrata (1971-81) critical edition. Migne's closing list of the articles in which the Master is not followed is included. No English translation in the public domain exists.

Contents

Source: Prologue, the 182 distinctions with their numbered chapters and Migne's chapter titles, and the appendix on the articles in which the Master is not followed. Page breaks and column numbers are dropped; Migne's source citations in the chapter titles are set in italics under the heading, those inside the text stay in parentheses. Migne's Monitum (editorial note) is not imported. Two chapter heads lost their numbers in the source (I d. 19 ch. 7, III d. 2 ch. 2) and carry the next number in sequence. Distinction titles are Migne's, put into sentence case. Migne's text follows the Antwerp 1757 edition, not the manuscript-based Quaracchi 1916 text, so chapter divisions can differ slightly from modern citations. The OCR may carry residual slips.