HOLCOT (Robert). Super Sapientiam Salomonis. Spire, Peter Drach, 26 February 1483. Gothic folio with 2 columns of 48 lines, stamped fawn calf on wooden boards, cornerpieces, central umbilicus and metal clasps (Binding of the period). Second edition of this important scholastic commentary on the Book of Wisdom. The English Dominican Robert Holcot, who was born around 1290 in Holcot, Northamptonshire, and died of the Black Death in 1349, was a scholastic philosopher, disciple of William of Ockham, professor of theology at Cambridge University, and an influential Bible commentator. More than 175 medieval manuscripts of this Commentary on the Book of Wisdom, his main work along with his Questions on the Book of Sentences, of which 48 handwritten copies survive, are known. The first edition of the work was also printed in Cologne, around 1476 or 1479, by Conrad Winters. The present edition, the second of the work, is the first to be precisely dated. It is attributable to Peter Drach (1455?-1504), a printer, bookseller and bookbinder from a wealthy family in Speyer, whose first known printing dates from May 1477. There were four further incunabula editions of Robert Holcot's Commentary: three in 1489, in Reutlingen, Paris and Basel, and the last in 1494 in Haguenau. A fully rubricated copy in a contemporary monastic binding. From the library of the Augustinian monastery of Würzburg, with handwritten bookplate at the beginning of the text: Monasteri S. Augustini Herbipoli. Heads and one clasp missing, spotting and minor damage to boards, split spine, a few marginal wormholes, missing in margin of f. E7. ISTC ih00289000 - HC 8757* - GW 12885 - Goff H289.