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ST THOMAS AQUINAS OP (1225-1274), Opuscula ; JOHN PECHAM OFM (c.1230-1292), Epistola ad comitissam Flandriae de Iudeis ; ?GERARD OF ABBEVILLE (d.1272), Quaestio de Iudeis , in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
ST THOMAS AQUINAS OP (1225-1274), Opuscula ; JOHN PECHAM OFM (c.1230-1292), Epistola ad comitissam Flandriae de Iudeis ; ?GERARD OF ABBEVILLE (d.1272), Quaestio de Iudeis , in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [France, late 13th century]335 x 240mm. iii paper + 120 + iii paper leaves: 1-10 1 2 , catchwords in lower margins of final versos, 52 lines in two columns written in black ink in a gothic bookhand between four verticals, the outer verticals double-ruled, and 53 horizontals ruled in grey, with additional double-ruled verticals in outer margin and horizontals in lower margin, justification: 232 x 74-11-75mm, rubrics in red, some red headings in upper margins, text capitals touched red, paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, two-line initials alternately in red and blue flourished in the contrasting colour, six large initials in red or blue flourished with red and blue, 19 EXTENSIVELY FLOURISHED LARGE 'PUZZLE' INITIALS IN RED AND BLUE, one diagram in red and black ink (lacking at least some leaves from end, a few leaves with eroded margins, some original holes and repairs in text, tears into text ff.1 and 3, three puzzle initials rubbed). 18th-century Italian half sheep and patterned paper over pasteboards, the spine lettered in gilt 'IO. D.THO OP.VAR MS.' (scuffed). PROVENANCE: 1. From script and decoration, the manuscript appears to have been produced in France, perhaps in Paris, in the late 13th or early 14th century. Aquinas is referred to throughout as frater , suggesting a date before his canonisation in 1323. The many marginal annotations in contemporary and later hands show that it was well used. 2. Perhaps from the Dominican convent of San Domenico, Gaeta (see lot 16): bound uniformly with the manuscript from Gaeta (lot 22) and eleven others and similarly inscribed with title in 17th-century hand (f.1) and 'Foglie * 120 iniziali * 14 Segnato N. A P' (end pastedown); brief 19th-century description in French loosely inserted. HSA B2716; Faulhaber, pp.53-4, 90-108. CONTENT: St Thomas Aquinas, De principiis naturae ad fratrem Sylvestrum , ff.1-2v; De mixtione elementorum ad magistrum Philippum de Castro Caeli , f.3r and v; De motu cordis ad magistrum Philippum de Castro Caeli , ff.3v-4; De eternitate mundi contra murmurantes , ff.4-5; Liber de sortibus, brevior recensio , with the prologue and other sections of the full version added in contemporary hands in the margins, ff.5-6v; De forma absolutionis paenitentiae sacramentalis ad magistrum ordinis , ff.6v-8v; In librum Boetii de hebdomadibus expositio , ff.8v-11v; De rationibus fidei ad cantorem antiochenum , ff.11v-16v; De iudiciis astrorum , ff.16v-17; De operationibus occultis naturae ad quendam militem ultramontanum , incomplete, ending at ... de quibus alica inferiora materialiter componuntur. , with a later marginal note Hic est deffectus , f.17r and v; Responsio ad magistrum Joannem de Vercellis de 108 articulis , ff.17v-22; Responsio ad lectorem venetum de 36 articulis , ff.22-24; Responsio ad magistrum Joannem Vercellis de 43 articulis , ff.24-26v; Responsio ad lectorem venetum de 36 articulis , as ff.22-24 but only articles 3, 12-13, 31-35, headed Articuli iterum sibi remissi a quibusdam scolaribus , ff.26v-27; De regno ad regem Cypri , ff.27-35; Compendium theologiae ad fratrem Raynaldum, Liber II, de spe , closing with the additional words ... multo enim difficilius fuit , ff.35-38v; De articulis fidei et ecclesiae sacramentis ad archiepiscopum panormitanum , ff.38v-42; In symbolum apostolorum expositio , ff.42-49; In orationem dominicam expositio , ff.49-53; Liber contra errores graecorum , ff.53-62; Expositio super primam et secundam decretalem ad archidiaconum tudertinum , ff.62-66; De operationibus occultis naturae ad quendam militem ultramontanun , as f.17r and v but complete, ff.66-67; Epistola fratris thome ad comitissam Flandrie de iudeis , traditionally known as the Epistola ad ducissam Brabantiae , ff.67-68. John Pecham, Epistol