Alexander of Hales, Summa theologica, in Latin decorated manuscript on parchment [England (most probably Oxford), c. 1260] Single leaf, double column, 60 lines of fine and tiny university script, eight initials in red or blue with simple contrasting penwork, recovered from reuse as a pastedown in a later binding and hence with some wormholes, small spots, two holes stained green from copper nails from binding and slight heat shrinkage to one edge, a number of sixteenth-century additions in bas-de-page (see below), else good condition, 293 by 200 mm. This leaf is from a large and appealing English copy of the magnum opus of the important English scholar and author, Alexander of Hales (now Halesowen, West Midlands). He was born there in the 1180s, and studied at Paris, where he became a Master of Arts by 1210. He had a notably varied career, teaching at Paris (where he introduced Peter Lombard’s Sententiae as the standard textbook for the study of theology), thereafter holding a prebend at Holborn and a canonry of St. Paul’s in London in the 1220s, as well as a canonry and an archdeaconry in Coventry and Lichfield. In the early 1230s, he returned to teaching in Paris, but also served King Henry II of England in a peace delegation sent to the French in 1235. At the age of 50 he joined the Franciscan Order, and was the first friar to hold a university chair. He most probably succumbed to an epidemic in Paris in 1245, and died there. The text here is from book II, on idolatry, with focus on that of the Jews, pagans and infidels. The parent manuscript of this leaf may have travelled into the Low Countries or northern Germany in the Middle Ages, perhaps carried by a returning scholar or student, as sixteenth-century additions at the foot of the leaf show that the volume it was used to bind was owned by Theodericus Maes of Bork (north of Dortmund) in 1568, who gave it to his son, also Theodericus and soon to be a dean, who then bestowed the book on Johann Kirk in nearby Billerbeck.
Alexander of Hales, Summa theologica, in Latin decorated manuscript on parchment [England (most probably Oxford), c. 1260] Single leaf, double column, 60 lines of fine and tiny university script, eight initials in red or blue with simple contrasting penwork, recovered from reuse as a pastedown in a later binding and hence with some wormholes, small spots, two holes stained green from copper nails from binding and slight heat shrinkage to one edge, a number of sixteenth-century additions in bas-de-page (see below), else good condition, 293 by 200 mm. This leaf is from a large and appealing English copy of the magnum opus of the important English scholar and author, Alexander of Hales (now Halesowen, West Midlands). He was born there in the 1180s, and studied at Paris, where he became a Master of Arts by 1210. He had a notably varied career, teaching at Paris (where he introduced Peter Lombard’s Sententiae as the standard textbook for the study of theology), thereafter holding a prebend at Holborn and a canonry of St. Paul’s in London in the 1220s, as well as a canonry and an archdeaconry in Coventry and Lichfield. In the early 1230s, he returned to teaching in Paris, but also served King Henry II of England in a peace delegation sent to the French in 1235. At the age of 50 he joined the Franciscan Order, and was the first friar to hold a university chair. He most probably succumbed to an epidemic in Paris in 1245, and died there. The text here is from book II, on idolatry, with focus on that of the Jews, pagans and infidels. The parent manuscript of this leaf may have travelled into the Low Countries or northern Germany in the Middle Ages, perhaps carried by a returning scholar or student, as sixteenth-century additions at the foot of the leaf show that the volume it was used to bind was owned by Theodericus Maes of Bork (north of Dortmund) in 1568, who gave it to his son, also Theodericus and soon to be a dean, who then bestowed the book on Johann Kirk in nearby Billerbeck.
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