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De humanitate Christi.

Accession number
PML 21784
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title

De humanitate Christi.

Published

Leiden : Heynricus Heynrici, 4 June 1484.

Description

(4to)

Credit line
Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Binding
18th-century quarter calf, with marbled paper sides.
Provenance
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelfmark: +E C (front endleaf 1 recto) and cut-out prints (including sale description for the 1570 edition of Aquinas's Opera omnia, bound in 21 volumes, printed on vellum, presented by Pope Pius V to Philip II of Spain, the set sold to T. Rodd, March 1850), part of library inherited by his son: Cornelius Inglis, M.D. (1824-1900), his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 June 1900, lot 753 for £11.15s to: J. & J. Leighton, booksellers, London; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, London, part II, 2 February 1914, lot 1674 for £17.10s to: F. S. Ellis, booksellers, London; Sir John Arthur Brooke (1844-1920), of Fenay Hall, Huddersfield, bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 May 1921, lot 35 for £16.10s; Joseph Martini, booksellers, New York, catalogue 18 (February 1922), no. 40 for $165; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Martini, Oct. 1922.
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Department