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THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-74). Summa theologiae: Pars secunda: secunda pars. Venice: [Leonardus Wild], 1479.
The second part of the second part of the Summa theologicae, Thomas Aquinas’s magnum opus containing the sum of all learning, deals with the virtues and vices. Its authority as a guide to Christian morals and ethics resulted in its separate circulation, a tradition reflected in the early printed editions, as here. A large copy, retaining many deckle edges. HC *1463; BMC V 264; IGI 9594; CIBN T-181; Bod-inc T-178; BSB-Ink T-292; Goff T-215.
Chancery folio (300 x 212mm). Without final blank leaf, initials in red, rubricated (first leaf lightly soiled). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, remains of single fore-edge clasps, title written on upper cover and spine (spine lined, repairing neat tears). Provenance: Bregenz, Capuchin convent, then Benedictine monastery (17th-century inscription; contemporary annotations).
The second part of the second part of the Summa theologicae, Thomas Aquinas’s magnum opus containing the sum of all learning, deals with the virtues and vices. Its authority as a guide to Christian morals and ethics resulted in its separate circulation, a tradition reflected in the early printed editions, as here. A large copy, retaining many deckle edges. HC *1463; BMC V 264; IGI 9594; CIBN T-181; Bod-inc T-178; BSB-Ink T-292; Goff T-215.
Chancery folio (300 x 212mm). Without final blank leaf, initials in red, rubricated (first leaf lightly soiled). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, remains of single fore-edge clasps, title written on upper cover and spine (spine lined, repairing neat tears). Provenance: Bregenz, Capuchin convent, then Benedictine monastery (17th-century inscription; contemporary annotations).
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