THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, ca. 1225-1274). Summa theologiae. Pars secunda: Pars secunda. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, before Advent 1463]. 2 o (370 x 278 mm). Collation: [1-4 1 2 5 1 0 6-14 1 2 15 8 16 6(1+1) 17-20 1 2 21 1 0; 22 8] (1/1r Quaestio i , 6/1r Quaestio xliv , 11/1r Quaestiones xcii , 17/1r Quaestio cliv , 21/10 blank; 22/1r table, 22/6r, 22/7-22/8 blank). 246 leaves (of 247, without blank 21/10). 59 lines, double column. Type 3:92 aG. Two- to seven-line initial spaces. One large Lombard initial in blue and red with reserved ornament numerous red or blue Lombards, capitals slashed in red, red or blue paragraph marks. Section titles and headlines supplied in red, red and blue pagination in Roman numerals, edges gilt (darkening to first page, a few short marginal tears). Late 19th-century morocco (detached from book block, some wear to foot of spine). Provenance : Additional table in a contemporary hand (on blank leaves following table); W.M. Tilghman (bookplate, and long bibliographical note, presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 7 Nov. 1893). FIRST EDITION of any part of the Summa theological , and THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED IN STRASSBURG. Johann Mentelin established a press there ca. 1458 and produced a Vulgate Bible, datable to not after 1460 (Goff B-528). The date assigned to the present edition of Thomas Aquinas is derived from a purchase inscription in the Silestat copy, which names Mentelin as the printer and is dated Advent 1463. The type used in the Aquinas, conventionally referred to as Mentelin 3, was in fact his second type and was first used in this book. The greatly influential Summa theological of St. Thomas Aquinas, composed ca. 1266-1272, was divided into three parts, of which the first treated God, the second man, and the third Christ. The second part was itself subdivided into a first part, concerning the last end of man and human actions in general, and a second part, in which Aquinas discussed the virtues and vices and the states and kinds of life. The usefulness of the Secunda secundae as a guide to Christian morals and ethics meant that from an early date it was consulted and copied separately, a practice that was reflected in the early printed tradition. Before the end of the fifteenth century there were eleven separate editions of the Secunda secundae . Part I of the Summa theological was first printed ca. 1468 in Cologne, Part II/1 in 1471 in Mainz, and Part III ca. 1474 in Basel. BMC and most other incunable catalogues call for 248 leaves rather than 247 leaves, computing and apocryphal blank leaf in quire 16, either at the end of the quire or conjugate to the inserted printed leaf. HC 1454*; BMC I, 51; CIBN T-174; Doheny I, 13 (with the table at the beginning); Fairfax Murray German 453; Harvard/Walsh 49; Schorbach Mentelin 5; Pr 199; Goff T-208.
THOMAS AQUINAS (Saint, ca. 1225-1274). Summa theologiae. Pars secunda: Pars secunda. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, before Advent 1463]. 2 o (370 x 278 mm). Collation: [1-4 1 2 5 1 0 6-14 1 2 15 8 16 6(1+1) 17-20 1 2 21 1 0; 22 8] (1/1r Quaestio i , 6/1r Quaestio xliv , 11/1r Quaestiones xcii , 17/1r Quaestio cliv , 21/10 blank; 22/1r table, 22/6r, 22/7-22/8 blank). 246 leaves (of 247, without blank 21/10). 59 lines, double column. Type 3:92 aG. Two- to seven-line initial spaces. One large Lombard initial in blue and red with reserved ornament numerous red or blue Lombards, capitals slashed in red, red or blue paragraph marks. Section titles and headlines supplied in red, red and blue pagination in Roman numerals, edges gilt (darkening to first page, a few short marginal tears). Late 19th-century morocco (detached from book block, some wear to foot of spine). Provenance : Additional table in a contemporary hand (on blank leaves following table); W.M. Tilghman (bookplate, and long bibliographical note, presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 7 Nov. 1893). FIRST EDITION of any part of the Summa theological , and THE SECOND BOOK PRINTED IN STRASSBURG. Johann Mentelin established a press there ca. 1458 and produced a Vulgate Bible, datable to not after 1460 (Goff B-528). The date assigned to the present edition of Thomas Aquinas is derived from a purchase inscription in the Silestat copy, which names Mentelin as the printer and is dated Advent 1463. The type used in the Aquinas, conventionally referred to as Mentelin 3, was in fact his second type and was first used in this book. The greatly influential Summa theological of St. Thomas Aquinas, composed ca. 1266-1272, was divided into three parts, of which the first treated God, the second man, and the third Christ. The second part was itself subdivided into a first part, concerning the last end of man and human actions in general, and a second part, in which Aquinas discussed the virtues and vices and the states and kinds of life. The usefulness of the Secunda secundae as a guide to Christian morals and ethics meant that from an early date it was consulted and copied separately, a practice that was reflected in the early printed tradition. Before the end of the fifteenth century there were eleven separate editions of the Secunda secundae . Part I of the Summa theological was first printed ca. 1468 in Cologne, Part II/1 in 1471 in Mainz, and Part III ca. 1474 in Basel. BMC and most other incunable catalogues call for 248 leaves rather than 247 leaves, computing and apocryphal blank leaf in quire 16, either at the end of the quire or conjugate to the inserted printed leaf. HC 1454*; BMC I, 51; CIBN T-174; Doheny I, 13 (with the table at the beginning); Fairfax Murray German 453; Harvard/Walsh 49; Schorbach Mentelin 5; Pr 199; Goff T-208.
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