[Summa contra gentiles, sive, De veritate Catholicae fidei]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Summa contra gentiles, sive, De veritate Catholicae fidei]
Other titles: Summa contra gentiles; De veritate Catholicae fidei
Classmark: BC Incunabula THO
Creator(s): Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
Additional creator(s): Reyser, Georg (1504) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)]
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [not after 1474]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 248 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106476
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008152369705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
Also recorded as [Heinrich Eggestein?]
Leaf [2r]: Incipit liber primus De v[er]itate catholice fidei [con]tra errores infideliu[m].Editus a fr[atr]e Thoma de Aquino ordinis fratrum p[re]dicato[rum].
The copy once belonging to the Vienna Dominicans has rubrication date: Ao 74 [i.e. 1474].
Printed in two columns with 49 and 50 lines to a full column.
No signatures.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The last leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. it00190000.
Indexed in: Hain 1385; Goff T190.
Features
Written on the front pastedown are notes in pencil manuscript giving details of the edition.
Book numbers have been supplied in red ink manuscript in Roman numerals at the top centre of versos and rectos.
Major initials, paragraph markers and underlinings supplied in red.
Bindings
Mid twentieth-century binding of full brown calf over wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a partial border of double fillets and a line of triple fillets near the joint with the spine. The spine has six raised bands with blind-tooled fillets to either side of each. Gold-tooled in the first panel are the words: Aquinas. De veritate Catholicae fidei. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Strassburg c. 1472. A binder's note dated July 1958 is pasted to the verso of the back free endpaper describing the condition of the old binding when received and the process of conservation. The remains of the previous paper lettering piece, with the title written in ink manuscript, are pasted to the verso of the back free endpaper. Affixed to the back pastedown is one of the previous blind-tooled sheepskin covers with evidence of two clasps. Size: 430 x 300mm. Leaf size: 401 x 280mm.
Provenance
Written in red ink manuscript beneath the final lines of text are the words and monogram: Deo gratias JMS.
Inscription in faded ink manuscript at the top of leaf [1r], indecipherable but for: Conuentus [...].
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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