P[ri]ma p[ar]s su[m]me theologie.

Accession number:

PML 22109

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Published:

Venice : [Nicolaus Jenson], 1477.

Description:

[310] leaves ; 27 x 18 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf b1r): Incipit p[ri]ma p[ar]s su[m]me theologie edita a s[an]c[t]o tho[me] de aqui[no] ang[e]lico doctore ordinis predicato[rum].
Colophon (leaf M11r): Explicit p[ri]ma p[ar]s su[m]me thome de aquino dilige[n]tissime castigata sup[er] eme[n]datione magistri francisci de neritono p[er] theologos viros religiosos petru[m] cantianu[m] [et] joannem fra[n]ciscu[m] venetos. Venetiis .M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Printed in types 6:75G and 7:150G.
Collation: a⁸; b-c¹⁰ d-x⁸ z [et] [con] [rum] A-H⁸ I-L¹⁰ M¹²: 310 leaves, leaves a1, a8, and M12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Edited by Franciscus de Neritono, Petrus Cantianus, and Joannes Franciscus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.3 x 17.3 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary German leather (damaged and heavily worn) over wooden boards (27 x 18 cm), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Manuscript waste pastedowns of a 14th- or early 15th-century manuscript; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, wanting.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Summa theologica, I

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Mainz, Jesuits, inscription: "Liber collegii Moguntini Societ. Jesu," (leaves a2r and M11r); unidentified shelf marks (Mainz Jesuits?): Cl. 6 / O 1 / 387 (leaf a2r) and L. No. 732 / St. No. 1282 (leaf a1r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Joseph Baer, Oct. 1923.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

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