ALEXANDER DE ALES (d.1245). Summa universae theologiae, part I only. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 24 January 1482. Part one (of 4). Royal 2° (370 x 259mm). Collation: [14 (table); 28 3-266 278]. 161 (of 164 leaves (lacking 13/4-5 and without final blank); preliminary quire containing the table bound at end. 70 lines and headline, gothic type, double column. Major opening initial supplied slightly later in red with gold highlights on a brown ground with white scrollwork, remaining initials and paragraph marks alternating red and blue by a contemporary hand. (Some worming in first few quires, first leaf repaired with small loss of text, small marginal repair to second leaf, very occasional light dampstaining, neat tear in one leaf.) Modern vellum. Provenance: Villeneuve, Carthusians (ink stamp) - unidentified ink stamp on 2/2r -- [sale Sotheby's, 21 November 1989, lot 64] -- Dr. Detlef Mauss (blindstamp). FIRST EDITION. BMC notes that 2 additional text leaves called for by Hain, Pellechet and GW may also be bound in vol. IV; they are absent in the present copy. HC *643; GW 871; BMC II, 422; Goff A-383.