ALEXANDER DE ALES (c.1187-1245). Summa universae theologiae . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 1481-82. First collected edition of a monumental commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Alexander de Ales was one of the great theologians at the University of Paris in the 13th century. His Summa , begun in 1231 but left unfinished at his death in 1245, incorporates not only the corpus of Aristotelian philosophy, but also the newly available work of Arab commentators. An attractive set with evidence of early quiring and preserving several deckle edges. HC *643; GW 871; BMC II 422; Bod-inc A-169; BSB-Ink A-240; ISTC ia00383000; Goff A-383. 4 volumes, royal folio (408 x 260mm). 1111 leaves in total (of 1112, lacking only the last blank in vol. 3), with the 4ff. register at the end of vol. 1 and the two ‘Generalis discursus’ leaves, sometimes bound in vol. 1, here bound in vol. 4. Large opening initials in vols. 1-3, the first two in red and blue and the third a fine South-German illuminated initial ‘V’ with floral and foliate scrolls extending into the margins, other initials and paragraph marks in red and blue by a contemporary hand (some light worming and occasional faint marginal stains, repairs to first 5 leaves and last 3 leaves of vol. 2). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vols. 1-2 from an unknown workshop and vols. 3-4 bound at the Uffenheim workshop [EBDB w000959] with manuscript title label on upper covers (lacking clasps and metal pieces, boards of vols. 1 and 2 renewed). Provenance : early marginalia – titled in an early hand on opening leaves of vols. 1 and 2. – Germany, Fürstenfeld Monastery (inscription in vols. 1 and 2) – Andechs, Bavaria, Benedictine Monastery of St Nicholas (inscription in vols. 3 and 4, bookplate in vol. 3) – early price note and engraved label on rear endpaper of vol. 1.
ALEXANDER DE ALES (c.1187-1245). Summa universae theologiae . Nuremberg: Anton Koberger 1481-82. First collected edition of a monumental commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Alexander de Ales was one of the great theologians at the University of Paris in the 13th century. His Summa , begun in 1231 but left unfinished at his death in 1245, incorporates not only the corpus of Aristotelian philosophy, but also the newly available work of Arab commentators. An attractive set with evidence of early quiring and preserving several deckle edges. HC *643; GW 871; BMC II 422; Bod-inc A-169; BSB-Ink A-240; ISTC ia00383000; Goff A-383. 4 volumes, royal folio (408 x 260mm). 1111 leaves in total (of 1112, lacking only the last blank in vol. 3), with the 4ff. register at the end of vol. 1 and the two ‘Generalis discursus’ leaves, sometimes bound in vol. 1, here bound in vol. 4. Large opening initials in vols. 1-3, the first two in red and blue and the third a fine South-German illuminated initial ‘V’ with floral and foliate scrolls extending into the margins, other initials and paragraph marks in red and blue by a contemporary hand (some light worming and occasional faint marginal stains, repairs to first 5 leaves and last 3 leaves of vol. 2). Contemporary German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, vols. 1-2 from an unknown workshop and vols. 3-4 bound at the Uffenheim workshop [EBDB w000959] with manuscript title label on upper covers (lacking clasps and metal pieces, boards of vols. 1 and 2 renewed). Provenance : early marginalia – titled in an early hand on opening leaves of vols. 1 and 2. – Germany, Fürstenfeld Monastery (inscription in vols. 1 and 2) – Andechs, Bavaria, Benedictine Monastery of St Nicholas (inscription in vols. 3 and 4, bookplate in vol. 3) – early price note and engraved label on rear endpaper of vol. 1.
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