Incipit prima pars secunde edita a fratre Thoma de Aquino.

Accession number: 
PML 17281
Author: 
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Published: 
Moguntina : per Petrum Schoiffer, millesimoquadringentesimo septuagesimoprimo, octaua die nouembris [8 November 1471].
Description: 
[177] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Incipit prima pars secunde edita a fratre Thoma de Aquino.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [17]/10v: Preclaru[m] hoc opus prime secu[n]de sancti thome de aquino. Alma in vrbe moguntina. inclite nationis germanice. qua[m] dei clementia tam alti ingenij lumine. donoq[ue] gratuitu. ceteris terra[rum] nac[i]o[n]ib[us] p[re]ferre illustrareq[ue] dignata e[st]. Artificiosa quada[m] adinuenc[i]o[n]e imp[ri]me[n]di seu caracterizandi absq[ue] vlla calami exaratione sic effigiatru[m]. et ad eusebia[m] dei industrie est consummatu[m]. p[er] petru[m] schoiffer de gernβhem. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadringentesimo septuagesimop[ri]mo. Octaua die nouembris. Sit laus deo. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's type 6:92G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰(9+1: noc no[n] sufficit); 9-11¹⁰ 12¹² 13-16¹⁰ 17¹²]: 177 leaves, ± leaf [1]/10, leaves [17]/11-12 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Incipit and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.7 x 28.7 cm.

Binding: 
15th-century (Austrian/Viennese?) blind-tooled (heavily worn) calf over wooden boards (42.5 x 29 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Pastedowns are contemporary Viennese manuscript documents written in German: 1) document between two women: Dorothe Thomans
Variant Title: 

Summa theologiae: Pars secunda: prima pars

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and red headlines. Annotations: Marginal notations throughout in at least 2 contemporary hands, including textual corrections and comments. Contemporary arabic quire numbers on first leaves, mostly trimmed.

Provenance: 
Vienna, Augustinian Canons Regular, S. Dorothea, donation inscription from Jacob Sutoris (Schuster): "Iste lib[er] e[st] mo[na]sterij S. dorothee v[ir]g[in]is wienne que[m] f[rate]r Jacob[us] sutor[is] de pruck p[os]t sua[m] p[or]fessio[nem] voluit e[ss]e [com]mu[n]e[m]," 15th century (leaf [1]/1) with two further S. Dorothea inscriptions in same hand: "Iste liber e[st] mo[na]sterij S. dorothee v[ir]g[in]is wienne" (leaves [9]/5r and [17]/12v) and purchase inscription "Emp. p[ro] iij flo[rens] hu[???] et 30 d[enarii]" (leaf [17]/12v); unidentified shelfmarks, 17th/18th century: No. 89 (crossed out), No. 560, II-A-2, and II-A7 (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Paul Gottschalk, Dec. 1910.
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