THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, c. 1225-1274). Super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Venice: Leonardus Wild, 18 March 1478.
THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, c. 1225-1274). Super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Venice: Leonardus Wild, 18 March 1478.
Second edition of Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Lombard's fourth book, dealing with the sacraments of the Church, which mediate God's grace. He gives particular attention to marriage, penance and the last days, from resurrection, the last judgement, and eternity. All early editions are rare; no copy of this second edition has been sold at auction since 1975, and only one copy of the first edition of 1469 has been sold in the same period (1987). It is the first book printed by Wild, active at Venice between 1478-81. HC *1482; BMC V 264; BSB-Ink T-264; IGI 9628; ISTC it00169000; Goff T-169.
Chancery folio (268 x 188mm). 386 leaves (outer column of first leaf replaced in contemporary manuscript). Illuminated opening initial on a red and blue ground by a contemporary artist, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, early ms. headlines (sometime trimmed) and foliation. (Occasional small wormhole or minor marginal wormtrack, light dampstain at some upper margins, a few small spots in final quire, 4 blank corners repaired.) 20th-century half tan pigskin over wooden boards, blind tooled to a gothic design, ascribed in pencil to [Charles] de Samblanx. Provenance: some contemporary annotations – Paris, College de Montaigu (early inscription on second leaf) – Ex libris Caetani Quercus (modern illuminated bookplate).
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THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, c. 1225-1274). Super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Venice: Leonardus Wild, 18 March 1478.
Second edition of Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Lombard's fourth book, dealing with the sacraments of the Church, which mediate God's grace. He gives particular attention to marriage, penance and the last days, from resurrection, the last judgement, and eternity. All early editions are rare; no copy of this second edition has been sold at auction since 1975, and only one copy of the first edition of 1469 has been sold in the same period (1987). It is the first book printed by Wild, active at Venice between 1478-81. HC *1482; BMC V 264; BSB-Ink T-264; IGI 9628; ISTC it00169000; Goff T-169.
Chancery folio (268 x 188mm). 386 leaves (outer column of first leaf replaced in contemporary manuscript). Illuminated opening initial on a red and blue ground by a contemporary artist, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, early ms. headlines (sometime trimmed) and foliation. (Occasional small wormhole or minor marginal wormtrack, light dampstain at some upper margins, a few small spots in final quire, 4 blank corners repaired.) 20th-century half tan pigskin over wooden boards, blind tooled to a gothic design, ascribed in pencil to [Charles] de Samblanx. Provenance: some contemporary annotations – Paris, College de Montaigu (early inscription on second leaf) – Ex libris Caetani Quercus (modern illuminated bookplate).
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