Secundus liber secunde partis.

Accession number: 
PML 24646
Author: 
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Published: 
Venice : Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1475.
Description: 
[332] leaves ; 30 x 21 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1927.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Incipit secundus liber secunde partis beati Thome de Aquino. ordinis predicatorum.
Colophon (leaf [33]/9v): Explicit secu[n]d[us] lib[er] secu[n]de p[ar]tis b[ea]ti Thome d[e] aq[ui]no. imp[re]ssus Venetiis p[er] Franciscum de hailbrun [et] Nicolau[m] de frankfordia socios. M.CCCC.LXXV.
Printed in types 3:150G and 2:75G.
Collation: [1⁸; 2-10¹⁰ 11-12¹² 13-20¹⁰ 21-22¹² 23-30¹⁰ 31-32⁸ 33¹⁰]: 332 leaves, leaf [33]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 20 cm.
PML copy with an inserted blank bound between quires [1] and [2], with offset of a large painted "sqn" monogram, which also bled through to leaf [1]/5r.

Binding: 
Modern blind-tooled full brown goatskin in a pastiche of an early style over wooden boards (30 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Summa theologica, II:2

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Venetian illuminated and historiated initial (leaf [2]/1r), with alternating red and blue initials, with filigree penwork decoration, and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript catchwords. Section titles in tabula and text and question numbers written in red. One early marginal notation in text (leaf [2]/1r).

Provenance: 
Martinus Nijhoff, unidentified sale catalogue description (rear fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Nijhoff, June 1927.
Classification: 
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