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THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274)

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£ 35 000
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13.12.2023 11:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 64 | THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274)
THOMAS AQUINAS (c.1225-1274)

Summa contra gentiles, sive De veritate Catholicae fidei. [Strasbourg: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), not after 1474].

First edition of Aquinas’s defence of Christianity: an exceptionally tall and fresh copy preserving several deckle edges. In this work, Aquinas skilfully integrates Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology, presenting a harmonious relationship between faith and reason. Once thought to have been written for the use of Dominican missionaries at the request of St Raymond of Penafort to assist them in converting Muslims and Jews in Spain to Christianity, the Summa contra gentiles explores the ways that both reason and revelation can lead towards Christian faith. Books printed with the first type of the anonymous Ariminensis press may be the work of Heinrich Eggestein rather than Georg Reyser. H 1385*; BMC I 77; BSB-Ink T-269; Bod-inc T-160; Goff T-190; ISTC it00190000.



Royal folio (407 x 285mm). 247 leaves (of 248, lacking final blank). Rubricated in red: initials (the large initial, 1⁄2r, in brown penwork), capital strokes, paragraph marks (trivial marginal worming in first 22 leaves). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, blind fillets, brass bosses and clasps, titled in manuscript direct to spine and with early title label on upper board (rebacked with remains of the original spine laid down). Provenance: several early annotations – Andechs, Benedictines (contemporary inscription, Iste liber attinet venerabili monasterio Sancti Nicolaj In monte sancto andezz) – Branner cat. 18 no. 3; Schab, March 1952 (purchased by:) – Estelle Doheny (label on pastedown, sale Christie's New York, 22 October 1987, lot 18) – J.R. Ritman (Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, bookplate; sale Sotheby's, 6 December 2000, lot 40).

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