[Super primo libro Sententiarum].

Accession number:

PML 17722

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Published:

Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, 10 July 1480.

Description:

[326] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.

Notes:

Title from ISTC, derived from colophon.
Tabula incipit (leaf 1a1r): Probleumata questionu[m] primi sente[n]tiarum fratris Thome de Aquino.
Colophon (leaf Y6r): Primum scriptum beatissimi doctoris Thome aquinatis sup[er] sente[n]tias: divinissime trinitatis misteria eleganter enodans Vigilatissimo correctum studio, imp[re]ssumq[ue] per me Henricu[m] que[n]tell. colon[iensis]. in colam. sexto ydus Julias feliciter finitur Anno salutis .1480.
Printed in Quentell's types 1:102G and 2:150G.
From Quentell's first press (BMC).
Collation: 1a⁶; 2a⁶; b-y A-G⁸ H-Y⁶ : 326 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. First leaf of Problemata questionum tabula (first quire) signed a1 but no other leaves signed.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 20.4 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary unstamped (filet rolls only in frame and saltire pattern) calf over wooden boards (31 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports possibly at Dulmen, ca. 1480 (EBDB w002359, Schwenke-Schunke II, 276); rebacked and reparied by Duprez-Lahey. Later vellum pastedowns, paper fly leaves. Former music manuscript pastedowns offset to fly leaves. 2 clasps, wanting; dart-shaped catches on top board.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text. Title inscription: Primu[s] Scriptu[s] beati Thomae (leaf 1a1r).

Provenance:

Dülmen (Weddern, North Rhine-Westphalia), Marienberg, Carthusians, inscription and later shelf mark(?): Liber castri Marie p[ro]p[r]e Dulma[n]nia[m] ord[in]is Carthusiens[is], E. 69: (front fly leaf recto); price code, 19th century(?): 2--4--0 (front pastedown); Thomas Gray, Glasgow, bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from F.S. Ellis, July 1911.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

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