Incipit su[m]ma theologie edita a fratre thoma de aq[ui]no ordinis p[rae]dicatorum.

Accession number: 
PML 64376
Author: 
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Published: 
[Padua] : p[er] mag[ist]r[u]m Albertum de Stendael, Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxiii. die .v. me[n]sis octobris [5 October 1473].
Description: 
[254] leaves ; 281 mm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 1973.
Notes: 

Title from caption on leaf [a2] recto.
Printer's name and date from colophon on leaf bb12 verso, which reads in full: Explicit op[us] p[ri]me p[ar]tis sancti Thome d[e] aq[ui]no. dilige[n]ter eme[n]datu[m] ab excelle[n]tissimo sacre theologie doctore mag[ist]ro fra[n]cisco de Neritono ordinis p[rae]dicatoru[m]. p[er] mag[ist]r[u]m Albertum de Stendael. // Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxiii. die .v. me[n]sis octobris.
Printed in Stendal's type 1:81G.
Signatures: [a-b]¹⁰ c-d¹⁰ e⁸ f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i-o¹⁰ p⁸ q¹⁰ r-z⁸ [A-B]¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ aa¹⁰ bb¹² [chi]⁶: 254 leaves, leaves [a]1 and [chi]1 blank. Signatures placed far down in the right-hand lower corner of leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Franciscus de Neritono.
Text in two columns of 48 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.1 x 19.9. cm., trimmed.
PML copy with leaf [a]1 (blank) bound after [b]10.

Binding: 
18th-century Italian stiff vellum over paper boards (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Incipit Summa theologiae edita a fratre Thoma de Aquino ordinis praedicatorum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary northern Italian illuminated initial Q with floral border decoration and black filigree penwork (leaf [a]2r), alternating red and blue initials with blue/red filigree penwork and paragraph marks. Manuscript headlines. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations.

Provenance: 
William John Monson, 6th baron (1796-1862), Burton Library armorial bookplate and booklabel (front pastedown); unidentified shelf marks and price codes (front and rear pastedowns); Clifford Rattey (1886-1970), bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Colin Franklin on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, Oct. 1973. NPM
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