ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES Two leaves from Peter Lombard's Libri Quattuor Sententiarum, two leaves conjoined, in Latin, 43 lines in two columns in gothic textualis, black ink on vellum with rubrics in red, flourished initials in blue and red, two historiated initials heightened in gold (on the recto a teaching scene with a tonsured master at a lectern and two students, possibly Peter Lombard and his students; on the verso, two haloed figures sitting by side by side under the Holy Spirit, possibly personifications of the Old and New Testaments), faint spotting and light soiling to edges, 350 x 240mm., France, thirteenth century TWO FINE CONJOINED LEAVES of one of the most influential scholastic texts of the Middle Ages, Peter Lombard's Sententiarum Libri IV. The Sentences, which were systematically compiled around 1155-1156, and for the first time arranged and summarised Christian knowledge. The text in these two leaves is from the Prologue ("Cupientes aliquid de penuria..."), the opening of Book I ("Veteris ac novae legis continentiam diligenter indagantibus...") and Book I, end of Distiction 8 and opening of Distiction 9 ("Nunc ad distinctionem personarum accedamus..").