Accession number
PML 18240
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title
Super quarto libro Sententiarum.
Published
Maguntina : per Petrum Schoiffher de Gernβhem, millesimoquadringentesimosexagesimonono, tredecima die Iunij [13 June 1469].
Description
[274] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [28]/10r: Preclaru[m] hoc opus quartiscripti s[an]c[t]i thome de aquino. Alme in vrbe mogu[n]tina. inclite nac[i]o[n]is germa[n]ice. qua[m] dei cleme[n]tia ta[m] alti ingenij lu[m]ine. donoq[ue] gratuito. ceteris terra[rum] nac[i]o[n]ib[us] p[re]ferre. illustra[r]eq[ue] dignata e[st]. Artificiosa quada[m] adinuenc[i]o[n]e imprimendi seu caracterizandi absq[ue] ulla calami exarac[i]o[n]e sic efficiatu[m]. et ad eusebia[m] dei industrie est co[n]su[m]matu[m]. p[er] petru[m] schoiffher de gernβhem. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadringentesimosexagesimonono. Tredecima die Iunij. Sit laus deo. [printer's mark]
Printed on Schoeffer's types 3:91G and 5:118G.
Collation: [1-13¹⁰ 14⁸(7+1: "indulgeat tibi") 15-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22⁶(5+1: "[R]espondeo dice[n]dum") 23-28¹⁰]: 274 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Colophon and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.9 x 29.7 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [28]/10r: Preclaru[m] hoc opus quartiscripti s[an]c[t]i thome de aquino. Alme in vrbe mogu[n]tina. inclite nac[i]o[n]is germa[n]ice. qua[m] dei cleme[n]tia ta[m] alti ingenij lu[m]ine. donoq[ue] gratuito. ceteris terra[rum] nac[i]o[n]ib[us] p[re]ferre. illustra[r]eq[ue] dignata e[st]. Artificiosa quada[m] adinuenc[i]o[n]e imprimendi seu caracterizandi absq[ue] ulla calami exarac[i]o[n]e sic efficiatu[m]. et ad eusebia[m] dei industrie est co[n]su[m]matu[m]. p[er] petru[m] schoiffher de gernβhem. Anno d[omi]ni millesimoquadringentesimosexagesimonono. Tredecima die Iunij. Sit laus deo. [printer's mark]
Printed on Schoeffer's types 3:91G and 5:118G.
Collation: [1-13¹⁰ 14⁸(7+1: "indulgeat tibi") 15-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22⁶(5+1: "[R]espondeo dice[n]dum") 23-28¹⁰]: 274 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Colophon and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.9 x 29.7 cm.
Binding
15th-century German blind-tooled calf over partially-bevelled wooden boards (41.5 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports, with tools attributed to the Frankfurt am Main Karmeliterkloster (Barbara) (EBDB w002763). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; leather endbands. 2 clasps, fore edge metal corner reinforcements, corner and center bosses (replaced). Manuscript title label: "[Q]uartu[m] scriptu[m] s[an]c[t]i thome" (front board).
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, headlines, and paragraph marks. Manuscript guide numbers in upper right corners for Distinction numbering. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary alpha-numeric quire signatures (entire quire signed).
Provenance
Frankfurt am Main, Dominicans, inscriptions: "fr[atru]m predica[torum] franckfordie ad librariam" (by Johannes Lenglin, librarian, ca. 1500) and shelfmark: E.6., with later 18th-century inscriptions: "Conventus Francofurti. Ord. Praed." and "No. 201" (leaf [1]/1r) and shelfmark: No. 201 C:F:O.P. (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, July 1908.
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