Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Peter Lombard, Sentences, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, dated 23 November 1479] 133 leaves (plus a single endleaf of perhaps seventeenth or eighteenth century at end), wanting two leaves at front (probably an endleaf and the opening of the prologue), else complete, collation: i8 (wanting first 2 leaves), ii-vi10, vii8, viii7 (last a cancelled blank, and the leaf before that with all but the initial 14 lines left blank, but text continuous with following page), ix10-xiv10 + a singleton to complete the index, catchwords, double column of 55 lines of a small late gothic bookhand with influence of secretarial letterforms, paragraph marks in red, small initials in red or blue with elongated strokes terminating in baubles, larger initials in same with blank paper patterns of lines and dots left within their bodies, "YHS" and some running titles in hairline penstrokes at head of leaves at end of book, leaves at each end of volume with old water damage causing losses there to edges and some staining (this affecting legibility only on current first leaf, and the last leaf repaired with more modern paper), small holes in first 2 leaves, slight stains to edges throughout, otherwise in clean and bright condition, 338 by 235mm.; seventeenth- or eighteenth-century reversed calf over pasteboards, scuffs and bumps and holes in leather on spine, but solid in binding Provenance: Written by a scribe who dates the book and names "Fratre Ludevico de ..." in the damaged and partly missing colophon on the last leaf, this perhaps his own name. That addition notes that the book originally belonged to a Dominican convent ("Iste liber est conventus sancte L... ordine predicatorum"). Text: Peter Lombard wrote his Sentences , a comprehensive compilation and distillation of medieval theology in the late 1140s as a guide to the study of the Bible and the Church Fathers. It is one of the textual foundation stones of medieval Christianity and philosophical thought. In turn other commentaries were written on it, perhaps the greatest of these being the present work by the Dominican friar and Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74). He had spent his second and third years of his degree studies at Paris studying the text, and in the 1250s he turned to compose this monumental commentary and augmentation of it. It is widely regarded as his first great work. To view a video of this item, click here.
Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Peter Lombard, Sentences, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, dated 23 November 1479] 133 leaves (plus a single endleaf of perhaps seventeenth or eighteenth century at end), wanting two leaves at front (probably an endleaf and the opening of the prologue), else complete, collation: i8 (wanting first 2 leaves), ii-vi10, vii8, viii7 (last a cancelled blank, and the leaf before that with all but the initial 14 lines left blank, but text continuous with following page), ix10-xiv10 + a singleton to complete the index, catchwords, double column of 55 lines of a small late gothic bookhand with influence of secretarial letterforms, paragraph marks in red, small initials in red or blue with elongated strokes terminating in baubles, larger initials in same with blank paper patterns of lines and dots left within their bodies, "YHS" and some running titles in hairline penstrokes at head of leaves at end of book, leaves at each end of volume with old water damage causing losses there to edges and some staining (this affecting legibility only on current first leaf, and the last leaf repaired with more modern paper), small holes in first 2 leaves, slight stains to edges throughout, otherwise in clean and bright condition, 338 by 235mm.; seventeenth- or eighteenth-century reversed calf over pasteboards, scuffs and bumps and holes in leather on spine, but solid in binding Provenance: Written by a scribe who dates the book and names "Fratre Ludevico de ..." in the damaged and partly missing colophon on the last leaf, this perhaps his own name. That addition notes that the book originally belonged to a Dominican convent ("Iste liber est conventus sancte L... ordine predicatorum"). Text: Peter Lombard wrote his Sentences , a comprehensive compilation and distillation of medieval theology in the late 1140s as a guide to the study of the Bible and the Church Fathers. It is one of the textual foundation stones of medieval Christianity and philosophical thought. In turn other commentaries were written on it, perhaps the greatest of these being the present work by the Dominican friar and Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74). He had spent his second and third years of his degree studies at Paris studying the text, and in the 1250s he turned to compose this monumental commentary and augmentation of it. It is widely regarded as his first great work. To view a video of this item, click here.
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