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THOMAS AQUINAS (ca 1225-1274). Summa theologiae, pars prima. Venice: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, 11th August 1482.
Chancery 2o (298 x 205 mm). Collation: A4 a10 b-e8 f-i8.6 k-n6 o-u8 x-z \\i \\j6 \\g8 aa6. 198 leaves. 58 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 2:150 (head-lines, first lines of sections), 1:73 (text). Initial spaces. First line on a2 printed in red. (A1-2 stained, some occasional marginal worming, a few pale stains.) 18th-century quarter russia, mottled boards (hinges weak, rubbed). Provenance: Marcius Antoni, of Ferrari (signature on A2) -- Antonius Masoni (signature on a2) -- W.H.H. Newman, Buffalo, NY (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 27 June 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
RARE. Antonius de Strata's imprint first appeared in July 1480 and was active until as late as 1492. He appears to have worked regularly for the humanist Georgius Valla in 1485 when he changed from a scholastic to a classical output. The present is one of only three copies located in America. H *1443; Goff T-199.
Chancery 2o (298 x 205 mm). Collation: A4 a10 b-e8 f-i8.6 k-n6 o-u8 x-z \\i \\j6 \\g8 aa6. 198 leaves. 58 lines and head-line, double column. Gothic types 2:150 (head-lines, first lines of sections), 1:73 (text). Initial spaces. First line on a2 printed in red. (A1-2 stained, some occasional marginal worming, a few pale stains.) 18th-century quarter russia, mottled boards (hinges weak, rubbed). Provenance: Marcius Antoni, of Ferrari (signature on A2) -- Antonius Masoni (signature on a2) -- W.H.H. Newman, Buffalo, NY (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 27 June 1941) -- donated to SMS 1941.
RARE. Antonius de Strata's imprint first appeared in July 1480 and was active until as late as 1492. He appears to have worked regularly for the humanist Georgius Valla in 1485 when he changed from a scholastic to a classical output. The present is one of only three copies located in America. H *1443; Goff T-199.