THOMAS AQUINAS (ca 1225-1274, Saint). Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate catholicae fidei . Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, [1476]. 2 o and 4 o (230 x 162 mm). Collation : [1 6 2-29 1 0 ]. 285 leaves (of 286; without the final blank). 41 lines (some leaves 42 or 43 lines), double column. Gothic types 3:150 (first line of text of each book) and 2:75 (text). Lombard initials supplied in alternate red and blue. LARGE OPENING FLORIATED INITIAL U WITH FLORAL PAGE-BORDER on 2/1, illuminated in gold and colors by a contemporary North-Italian artist, painted coat-of-arms at center of lower margin. (Gold ground of initial lightly chipped, 1/1.6 reinforced along fold, first quire sprung, small marginal repair on 2/1 just touching page-border, repaired marginal wormtrack in quires 23 and 24, some occasional pale marginal dampstaining and light soiling.) 18th-century Italian vellum gilt over pasteboard, covers with the arms of Pope Pius VI at center (hinges cracked). Provenance : marginalia in several early hands -- Pope Pius VI (1717-1799, binding) -- John Bell (armorial bookplate) -- Boies Penrose II (1902-1976, armorial bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles) -- donated to SMS 6 December 1937. FIRST VENETIAN EDITION. The preliminary quire is quarto; quires 2-12 are folio; quires 13 and 15 are mixed quarto and folio; quire 14 is quarto; quires 16-22 are folio; the remainder of the book is quarto. CIBN dates the book "not after 1476"; BMC cites that the Olmütz copy is dated 1476 by the rubricator. Renner's edition was preceded by the Strassburg edition by the "Printer of the Henricus Arminensis," not after 1474 (Goff T-190) and Arnoldus Pannartz's Roman edition of 20 September 1475 (Goff T-191). Composed ca 1259-1264, in Paris, Naples, and Orvieto, the Summa contra gentiles is thought to have been written for the use of Dominican missionaries at the request of St. Raymond of Penafort, who had devoted himself to the conversion of the Spanish Jews and Moors. BMC V, 193 (IA.19838); CIBN T-164; H *1386; Oates 1658; Pr 4159; Goff T-192.
THOMAS AQUINAS (ca 1225-1274, Saint). Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate catholicae fidei . Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, [1476]. 2 o and 4 o (230 x 162 mm). Collation : [1 6 2-29 1 0 ]. 285 leaves (of 286; without the final blank). 41 lines (some leaves 42 or 43 lines), double column. Gothic types 3:150 (first line of text of each book) and 2:75 (text). Lombard initials supplied in alternate red and blue. LARGE OPENING FLORIATED INITIAL U WITH FLORAL PAGE-BORDER on 2/1, illuminated in gold and colors by a contemporary North-Italian artist, painted coat-of-arms at center of lower margin. (Gold ground of initial lightly chipped, 1/1.6 reinforced along fold, first quire sprung, small marginal repair on 2/1 just touching page-border, repaired marginal wormtrack in quires 23 and 24, some occasional pale marginal dampstaining and light soiling.) 18th-century Italian vellum gilt over pasteboard, covers with the arms of Pope Pius VI at center (hinges cracked). Provenance : marginalia in several early hands -- Pope Pius VI (1717-1799, binding) -- John Bell (armorial bookplate) -- Boies Penrose II (1902-1976, armorial bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles) -- donated to SMS 6 December 1937. FIRST VENETIAN EDITION. The preliminary quire is quarto; quires 2-12 are folio; quires 13 and 15 are mixed quarto and folio; quire 14 is quarto; quires 16-22 are folio; the remainder of the book is quarto. CIBN dates the book "not after 1476"; BMC cites that the Olmütz copy is dated 1476 by the rubricator. Renner's edition was preceded by the Strassburg edition by the "Printer of the Henricus Arminensis," not after 1474 (Goff T-190) and Arnoldus Pannartz's Roman edition of 20 September 1475 (Goff T-191). Composed ca 1259-1264, in Paris, Naples, and Orvieto, the Summa contra gentiles is thought to have been written for the use of Dominican missionaries at the request of St. Raymond of Penafort, who had devoted himself to the conversion of the Spanish Jews and Moors. BMC V, 193 (IA.19838); CIBN T-164; H *1386; Oates 1658; Pr 4159; Goff T-192.
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